The General Optical Council (Registration Appeals Rules) Order of Council 2005

Notification of hearing date: applicants

29.  Subject to section 13K(4) and (10), where an application has been referred to the Registration Appeals Committee under section 13K(3) (reference by registrar of any application for restoration to a register following erasure or removal at the direction of the Fitness to Practise Committee)(1), the registrar shall serve on the applicant a notification—

(a) of the date of the hearing;

(b) informing the applicant of:

(i) the information set out in rule 28(b)(i) to (iii), and

(ii) the Committee’s powers of disposal under section 13K(6);

(c) requesting the applicant to notify the registrar, within the period of 14 days beginning with the date of the notification whether he wishes to attend the hearing; and

(d) inviting the applicant, if he chooses not to attend the hearing, to make written representations to be received by the registrar no later than 14 days before the hearing;

(e) where the applicant has made a previous unsuccessful application, informing him of the Committee’s power to suspend indefinitely his right to make further applications for restoration under section 13K(8); and

(f) where the applicant has made a previous unsuccessful application and chooses not to attend the hearing, inviting him to make written representations on the issue of indefinite suspension of his right to make further applications, to be received by the registrar no later than 14 days before the hearing.

(1)

Section 13K was inserted by S.I. 2005/848.