Duty to provide information to the Registrar
4.—(1) A registrant must notify the Registrar in writing of the events specified in paragraph (2) within the period of 7 days starting on the day on which the event occurs.
(2) Those events are if the registrant—
(a)is convicted of any criminal offence;
(b)accepts a police caution;
(c)has, in summary proceedings in Scotland in respect of an offence, been the subject of an order discharging the registrant absolutely (without proceeding to conviction);
(d)has accepted a conditional offer under section 302 of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995(1) (fixed penalty: conditional offer by procurator fiscal);
(e)has agreed to pay a penalty under section 115A of the Social Security Administration Act 1992(2) (penalty as an alternative to prosecution);
(f)is notified by a regulatory body in the United Kingdom responsible under any enactment for the regulation of a health or social care profession of a determination to the effect that their fitness to practise is impaired, or a determination by a regulatory body elsewhere to the same effect;
(g)becomes subject to an investigation into their fitness to practise by another regulatory body (apart from the Council);
(h)becomes the subject of any fraud investigation by a body responsible for investigating fraud in relation to the health service (for example, the NHS Counter Fraud and Security Management Service, the NHS Business Services Authority or the NHS Scotland Counter Fraud Services, which is part of the Common Services Agency); or
(i)is removed, contingently removed or suspended from, refused admission to or conditionally included in any list held by a health service body of performers or providers of pharmaceutical services on fitness to practise grounds.
1992 c.5; section 115A was inserted by the Social Security Administration (Fraud) Act 1997 (c.47), section 15.