Regulation 23 Fitness to practise proceedings and interim orders proceedings: witness summonsI1
England and Wales
(1)
For the purposes of fitness to practise proceedings and interim orders proceedings—
(a)
a fitness to practise panel may administer oaths,
F1(b)
SCW may apply to the County Court or the High Court to issue a witness summons in accordance with Rule 34.4 of the Civil Procedure Rules 1998.
(2)
No person is to be compelled by a summons issued under paragraph (1)(b) to produce any document which that person could not be compelled to produce in civil proceedings in England and Wales.
Annotations
Textual amendments
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Reg. 23(1)(b) substituted (3.4.2017) by The Social Care Wales (Proceedings before Panels) (Amendment) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/140), regs. 1(2), 2(3)