Regulation 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

These Regulations may be cited as the Office of the Health Professions Adjudicator Regulations 2009.

These Regulations come into force on 1st November 2009.

In these Regulations—

• “the Act” means the Health and Social Care Act 2008;

• “final outcome”, in relation to any proceedings where there are rights of appeal, means the outcome of proceedings—

  1. (a)

     once the period for bringing an appeal has expired without an appeal being brought; or

  2. (b)

     if an appeal is brought in accordance with those rights, once those rights have been exhausted;

• “licensing body” means any body anywhere in the world which licenses or regulates any profession;

• “spent conviction” means—

  1. (a)

     in relation to a court in Great Britain, a spent conviction within the meaning of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974^f1;

  2. (b)

     in relation to a court in Northern Ireland, a spent conviction within the meaning of the Rehabilitation of Offenders (Northern Ireland) Order 1978^f2.