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  1. Introductory Text

  2. PART 1

    1. 1.Citation and commencement

    2. 2.Interpretation

    3. 3.Duty to provide information to the registrar

    4. 4.Fitness to practise criteria

  3. PART 2

    1. 5.Initial action in respect of allegations

    2. 6.Notices of referral and documents to be supplied to persons concerned

    3. 7.Voluntary removal of names from the register

    4. 8.Voluntary removal: supplementary provision

    5. 9.Applications for restoration

  4. PART 3

    1. 10.Procedures of the Scrutiny Committee

    2. 11.Agreement of undertakings by the Scrutiny Committee

    3. 12.Recording in the register of decisions by the Scrutiny Committee

    4. 13.Notices

    5. 14.Reconsideration of allegations

  5. PART 4

    1. 15.Action upon referral of an allegation

    2. 16.Disclosure provisions

    3. 17.Inspection of documents

    4. 18.Notices of hearing other than interim order hearings

    5. 19.Interim Order Notices and court referrals

    6. 20.Hearing bundles

    7. 21.Request for a case management meeting

    8. 22.Case management meetings

    9. 23.Case management directions

  6. PART 5

    1. 24.Practice directions

    2. 25.Clinical and other specialist advice

    3. 26.Evidence

    4. 27.Absence of the person concerned

    5. 28.Agreement of undertakings and giving of advice and warnings

    6. 29.Recording in the register of decisions by the Statutory Committee

    7. 30.Joinder of allegations for a joint hearing

    8. 31.Consideration of allegations that relate to more than one category of impairment

    9. 32.Consideration of additional allegations

    10. 33.Additional evidence for review hearings

  7. PART 6

    1. 34.Procedure at principal hearings before the Statutory Committee in fitness to practise proceedings

    2. 35.Procedure at principal hearings before the Statutory Committee in disqualification proceedings

    3. 36.Procedure at review hearings

    4. 37.Procedure at restoration hearings

    5. 38.Procedure at interim order hearings

  8. PART 7

    1. 39.Postponements and adjournments

    2. 40.Disposal of allegations without hearings

    3. 41.Attendance of the public at hearings

    4. 42.Representation

    5. 43.Amendment of the particulars of the allegation at principal hearings

    6. 44.Burden and standard of proof

    7. 45.Witness evidence

    8. 46.Vulnerable witnesses at hearings

    9. 47.Review of undertakings

    10. 48.Costs of the hearing

    11. 49.Notes and transcripts of hearings

  9. Signature

  10. Explanatory Note