Regulation 14 Interpretation of Part 3I1

England and Wales

In this Part—

“case” (“achos”) means proceedings relating to fitness to practise proceedings or interim orders proceedings (as the case may be) before a fitness to practise panel;
“fitness to practise hearing” (“gwrandawiad addasrwydd i ymarfer”) means a hearing before a fitness to practise panel in fitness to practise proceedings;
“fitness to practise proceedings” (“achos addasrwydd i ymarfer”) means proceedings before a fitness to practise panel to which Chapter 3 or Chapter 5^f1 of Part 6 of the Act applies;
“interim orders hearing” (“gwrandawiad gorchmynion interim”) means a hearing before a fitness to practise panel in interim orders proceedings;
“interim orders proceedings” (“achos gorchmynion interim”) means proceedings before a fitness to practise panel to which Chapter 4^f2 of Part 6 of the Act applies;
“parties” (“partïon”) means the registered person to whom the fitness to practise proceedings or interim orders proceedings relate and SCW (or their representatives);
“registered person” (“person cofrestredig”) means the registered person^f3 in respect of whom the referral to the fitness to practise panel has been made.

Annotations

f1: See Chapter 5 of Part 6 of the Act (review proceedings), in particular section 151 of the Act (review proceedings). The fitness to practise panel administers the system for the review of any conditions attached to a person’s ability to practise, suspension orders and undertakings which have been imposed or agreed (as the case may be) in respect of the person following fitness to practise proceedings..
f2: See Chapter 4 of Part 6 to the Act (interim orders and review of interim orders). Interim order proceedings are undertaken to enable temporary restrictions to be imposed in respect of a registered person while investigations are undertaken into allegations made against the person about their fitness to practise. If the making of an interim order is considered to be necessary, a matter may be referred either to a fitness to practise panel or to an interim orders panel (see Part 4 for provision about the procedure of interim orders panels). If a matter is referred to a fitness to practise panel, any interim order must be made before the matter is disposed of by the fitness to practise panel in accordance with any of sections 135 to 138 of the Act (see section 144(3) of the Act).
f3: See section 164 of the Act for the meaning of “registered person” in Part 6 of the Act.