The General Pharmaceutical Council (Fitness to Practise and Disqualification etc. Rules) Order of Council 2010 No. 1615

SCHEDULE The General Pharmaceutical Council (Fitness to Practise and Disqualification etc.) Rules 2010

PART 5 Matters arising both before and during hearings

Consideration of allegations that relate to more than one category of impairment

28.—(1) As regards any fitness to practise allegation before the Committee, if—

(a) the particulars of the allegation in the Notice of Hearing relate to more than one category of impairment of fitness to practise; and

(b) those particulars include a conviction or caution,

the chair must ensure (by adapting the procedure for the hearing, where necessary) that at the principal hearing, the Committee makes its findings of facts in relation to the allegations that do not relate to the conviction or caution before it hears and makes its findings of fact in relation to the conviction or caution.

(2) In the circumstances set out in paragraph (1), the chair must also ensure (by adapting the procedure for the hearing, where necessary), that the Committee only makes its decision as regards impairment of fitness to practise once it has made its finding of fact in relation to all the allegations set out in the Notice of Hearing.