{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/private-and-voluntary-health-care-england-regulations-2001/regulation-19",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/private-and-voluntary-health-care-england-regulations-2001/regulation-19.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2001/3968",
  "legislation_title": "The Private and Voluntary Health Care (England) Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/private-and-voluntary-health-care-england-regulations-2001",
  "path": "regulation/19",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Fitness of workers",
  "text": "(1) The registered person shall ensure that—\n(a) no person is employed to work in or for the purposes of the establishment or for the purposes of the agency; and\n(b) no medical practitioner is granted consulting or practising privileges,\nunless that person is fit to work in or for the purposes of the establishment, or for the purposes of the agency.\n(2) A person is not fit to work in or for the purposes of an establishment, or for the purposes of an agency unless—\n(a) he is of integrity and good character;\n(b) he has the qualifications, skills and experience which are necessary for the work which he is to perform;\n(c) he is physically and mentally fit for that work; and\n(d) full and satisfactory information is available in relation to him—\n(i) except where paragraph (3) applies, in respect to each of the matters specified in paragraphs 1 to 7 of Schedule 2;\n(ii) where paragraph (3) applies, in respect of each of the matters specified in paragraphs 1 and 3 to 8 of Schedule 2.\n(3) This paragraph applies where any certificate or information on any matters referred to in paragraph 2 of Schedule 2 is not available to an individual because any provision of the Police Act 1997 has not been brought into force.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See footnote to regulation 10(4)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2002/865",
      "affecting_title": "The Care Standards Act 2000 (Establishments and Agencies) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2002"
    },
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/2002/865",
      "affecting_title": "The Care Standards Act 2000 (Establishments and Agencies) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2002"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/3968/regulation/19",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:19:02.233512+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."
}