The National Health Service (Discipline Committees) (Scotland) Regulations 2006

Response of practitioner

This section has no associated Executive Note

3.—(1) Where the practitioner wishes to respond to the statement of case, he or she shall send the response to the appropriate Health Board and the discipline committee within 28 days of the date on which the statement of case was sent to the practitioner.

(2) Where the practitioner requests an extension of the 28 day period mentioned in sub–paragraph (1) before it expires, the chairperson of the appropriate discipline committee may grant an extension of that period for a further 28 days from the day on which the period would otherwise expire.