The General Osteopathic Council (Constitution of the Statutory Committees) Rules Order of Council 2009

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) These Rules may be cited as the General Osteopathic Council (Constitution of the Statutory Committees) Rules 2009 and—

(a) apart from rule 12(h), come into force on 1st April 2009;

(b) rule 12(h) comes into force on the coming into force of section 44(1) of the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006(1) (registers: power to apply for vetting information).

(2) In these Rules—

“the Act” means the Osteopaths Act 1993;

“final outcome”, in relation to any proceedings where there are rights of appeal, means the outcome of the proceedings—

(a)

once the period for bringing an appeal has expired without an appeal being brought; or

(b)

if an appeal is brought in accordance with those rights, once those rights have been exhausted;

“Fitness to Practise Committee” means the Investigating Committee, the Professional Conduct Committee or the Health Committee;

“lay person” means a person who is not and never has been a registered osteopath and who does not hold a qualification which would entitle them to apply for registration under the Act;

“licensing body” means any body, other than the General Council, anywhere in the world that licenses or regulates any profession;

“ordinary member”, in relation to a statutory committee, means a member of that committee who is not a co-opted member; and

“spent conviction” means—

(a)

in relation to a conviction by a court in Great Britain, a conviction that is a spent conviction for the purposes of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974(2); or

(b)

in relation to a conviction by a court in Northern Ireland, a conviction that is a spent conviction for the purposes of the Rehabilitation of Offenders (Northern Ireland) Order 1978(3).

(1)

2006 c.47.

(2)

1974 c. 53.

(3)

S.I. 1978/1908 (N.I. 27).