Health and Social Care Professionals Act 2005
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Direction by Council to impose disciplinary sanction. |
66.—(1) If a committee of inquiry finds that an allegation made by a complainant against a registrant is substantiated, the Council shall, after considering the committee's report and any recommendation made by the registration board concerned within the time allowed under section 65 , direct the board to impose on the registrant one or more than one disciplinary sanction specified in the direction. | |
(2) However, the Council may not direct a registration board to cancel the registration of a registrant on the grounds of a conviction for an offence referred to in section 52 (1)(g) unless— | ||
(a) in the Council's opinion, the nature of the offence or the circumstances in which it was committed ought to disqualify the registrant for practising the designated profession, or | ||
(b) a conviction for such offence would render a person ineligible for registration as a registrant of the designated profession. | ||
(3) On giving a direction to a registration board to impose on a registrant a disciplinary sanction referred to in section 65 (1)(b), (c), or (e), the Council shall specify in the direction— | ||
(a) in the case of a disciplinary sanction referred to in section 65 (1)(b), the nature of the conditions to be attached to his or her registration, | ||
(b) in the case of a disciplinary sanction referred to in section 65 (1)(c), the period of suspension of his or her registration, and | ||
(c) in the case of a disciplinary sanction referred to in section 65 (1)(e), the period for which he or she is prohibited from applying for restoration to the register. |