{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-service-committees-and-tribunal-regulations-1992/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-service-committees-and-tribunal-regulations-1992/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1992/664",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Service Committees and Tribunal) Regulations 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-service-committees-and-tribunal-regulations-1992",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Referral to investigating discipline committee",
  "text": "(1) Where an appropriate Health Authority or Primary Care Trust decides to proceed under regulation 4(2)(a) or (7) it shall, subject to paragraph (2), refer the matter to another Health Authority or Primary Care Trust, for investigation by that Health Authority’s or Primary Care Trust's appropriate discipline committee.\n(2) The appropriate Health Authority or Primary Care Trust shall not refer the matter to another Health Authority or Primary Care Trust which has appointed any discipline committee jointly with the appropriate Health Authority or Primary Care Trust.\n(3) Subject to paragraph (6) the appropriate discipline committee referred to in paragraph (1) is—\n(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(c) where the matter relates to an ophthalmic medical practitioner or optician, an ophthalmic discipline committee;\n(d) where the matter relates to a chemist, a pharmaceutical discipline committee.\n(4) A matter which, under paragraph (1), is required to be investigated by two discipline committees, may instead be referred for investigation by a joint discipline committee.\n(5) If, in the opinion of a discipline committee, a matter referred to it includes allegations which are required, by virtue of paragraph (1), to be investigated also by another discipline committee, it shall refer the matter to the joint discipline committee instead of dealing with the matter itself.\n(6) Where a matter is referred for investigation by a joint discipline committee under paragraph (4) or paragraph (5), that committee shall be the appropriate discipline committee instead of any other committee.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regulations revoked (E.) by The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/1909), reg. 1, Sch. 8 para. 1(1)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Regs. 3-13 substituted for regs. 3-14 (1.4.1996) by The National Health Service (Service Committees and Tribunal) Amendment Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/703), regs. 1, 4 (with reg. 15)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 5 inserted (1.10.2002) by The National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002 (Supplementary, Consequential etc. Provisions) Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/2469), regs. 1, 8, Sch. 5 (with Sch. 12 Pts. 1, 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Reg. 5(3)(a) omitted (E.) (1.4.2004) by virtue of The General Medical Services and Personal Medical Services Transitional and Consequential Provisions Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/865), art. 1(1), Sch. 1 para. 10(d) (with arts. 94-104); and omitted (W.) (1.4.2004) by virtue of The General Medical Services Transitional and Consequential Provisions (Wales) (No. 2) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/1016), art. 1(1), Sch. 1 para. 10(1)(d) (with arts. 71, 72)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Reg. 5(3)(b) omitted (E.) (1.4.2006) by virtue of The General Dental Services, Personal Dental Services and Abolition of the Dental Practice Board Transitional and Consequential Provisions Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/562), art. 1(1), Sch. 1 para. 3(5) (with arts. 31-37); and reg. 5(3)(b) omitted (W.) (1.4.2006) by virtue of The General Dental Services and Personal Dental Services Transitional and Consequential Provisions (Wales) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/946), art. 1(1), Sch. 1 para. 2(5) (with arts. 31-37)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/664/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:25:31.699231+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}