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PART 6SOCIAL CARE WORKERS: FITNESS TO PRACTISE

CHAPTER 3DISPOSAL OF FITNESS TO PRACTISE CASES

134Scope and interpretation of Chapter 3

(1)This Chapter applies in respect of a matter which has been referred to a fitness to practise panel.

(2)But it does not apply in respect of review proceedings under section 151 (except to the extent that rules may be made under section 136(4) or 137(6) about undertakings agreed, confirmed or varied, or warnings given, on a review carried out under section 151).

(3)Nor does it apply in respect of proceedings before a fitness to practise panel, or that part of proceedings before a fitness to practise panel, in which that panel is considering—

(a)whether to make an interim order under section 144, or

(b)the review of an interim order under section 146.

(4)In this Chapter a reference to a registered person is a reference to the registered person in respect of whom the referral to the fitness to practise panel has been made.