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

PART 3 ASSESSMENTS OF INDIVIDUAL APPELLANTS OR INDIVIDUAL APPLICANTS

Appointment of assessors and direction for assessment

9.—(1) The Registration Appeals Committee may—

(a) appoint one or more persons to assess and report to them on–

(i) the health of the appellant or the applicant, or

(ii) the standard or quality of the work done or being done by the appellant or the applicant; and

(b) direct the appellant or the applicant to meet with the person or persons appointed and to submit to any examination required for the purposes of their assessment and report.

(2) Where the Committee give a direction under paragraph (1)(b), they shall specify the matters upon which the appellant or the applicant is to be assessed.

(3) This Rule shall not apply to an appellant or applicant which is a body corporate.

Assessment notification

10.  Where the Registration Appeals Committee have appointed an assessor under rule 9, the registrar shall—

(a) serve on the appellant or the applicant a notification of the Committee’s appointment;

(b) fix the date of the meeting with the assessor; and

(c) serve on the appellant or the applicant, and on the assessor, a notification of–

(i) the date of the meeting, and

(ii) the direction the Committee have given under rule 9(1)(b).

Date of meeting

11.  The meeting referred to in rule 10 shall take place no earlier than 28 days after the date upon which the notification required by paragraph (c) of that rule was served on the appellant or the applicant.

Assessment report

12.  Each assessor appointed under rule 9 shall, once he has completed his assessment, send a report of the assessment to—

(a) the registrar; and

(b) the appellant or the applicant.

Failure to submit or comply with an assessment

13.  Where an appellant or an applicant has failed to submit to, or co-operate with, any examination required or directed to be carried out under rule 9, the Registration Appeals Committee shall draw such inferences as seem appropriate to them in respect of his appeal or application.