{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-service-committees-and-tribunal-regulations-1992/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-service-committees-and-tribunal-regulations-1992/regulation-7.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/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Investigations by discipline committees",
  "text": "(1) A discipline committee shall investigate any matter which is referred to it.\n(2) Schedule 4 shall have effect with respect to the procedure for investigating disciplinary matters under this Part.\n(3) Where the disciplinary matter concerns an alleged overpayment made to a practitioner pursuant to regulation 4(7) the appropriate Health Authority or Primary Care Trust may refer it under regulation 5(1) at any time.",
  "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. 7(3) 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)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/664/regulation/7",
    "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."
}