(1)[F1The Welsh Council] shall by rules determine circumstances in which, and the means by which—
(a)a person may be removed from a part of the register, whether or not for a specified period;
(b)a person who has been removed from a part of the register may be restored to that part;
(c)a person’s registration in a part of the register may be suspended for a specified period;
(d)the suspension of a person’s registration in a part of the register may be terminated;
(e)an entry in a part of the register may be removed, altered or restored.
(2)The rules shall make provision as to the procedure to be followed, and the rules of evidence to be observed, in proceedings brought for the purposes of the rules, whether before the Council or any committee of the Council.
(3)The rules shall provide for such proceedings to be in public except in such cases (if any) as the rules may specify.
(4)Where a person’s registration in a part of the register is suspended under subsection (1)(c), he shall be treated as not being registered in that part notwithstanding that his name still appears in it.
Textual Amendments
F1Words in s. 59(1) substituted (1.8.2012) by Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c. 7), s. 306(4), Sch. 15 para. 7; S.I. 2012/1319, art. 2(4)
Commencement Information
I1S. 59 partly in force; s. 59 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 122; s. 59 in force for E. for certain purposes at 7.5.2001 by S.I. 2001/1536, arts. 1(3), 2(2)(a)(iii); s. 59 in force for W. for certain purposes at 30.4.2002 by S.I. 2002/1175, arts. 1(3), 2(1); s. 59 in force for E. for certain purposes at 7.3.2003 by S.I. 2003/933, art. 2(2); s. 59 otherwise in force for W. at 1.4.2003 by S.I. 2003/501, art. 2(4)