{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-service-committees-and-tribunal-regulations-1992/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-service-committees-and-tribunal-regulations-1992/regulation-6.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/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Time limits",
  "text": "(1) Where the disciplinary matter concerns an allegation which has been the subject of a complaint the appropriate Health Authority or Primary Care Trust shall refer it under regulation 5(1) within 28 days of the allegation having ceased to be the subject of a complaint which is being investigated.\n(2) Where the disciplinary matter does not concern an allegation which has been the subject of a complaint the appropriate Health Authority or Primary Care Trust shall refer it under regulation 5(1) within the time limits specified in paragraph (3).\n(3) The time limits referred to in paragraph (2) are—\n(a) in the case of a ... ophthalmic medical practitioner, optician or chemist, 13 weeks after the event or matter which is the subject of the allegation;\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "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. 6 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": "Word in reg. 6(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(e) (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)(e) (with arts. 71, 72)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Reg. 6(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(6) (with arts. 31-37); and 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(6) (with arts. 31-37)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Reg. 6(4)(5) 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(6) (with arts. 31-37); and 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(6) (with arts. 31-37)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/664/regulation/6",
    "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."
}