The General Social Care Council (Transfer of Register and Abolition—Transitional and Saving Provision) Order of Council 2012

Applications for restoration

11.—(1) Subject to article 8 and paragraph (2) of this article, a person in relation to whom a removal order was made by the GSCC’s Conduct Committee before 1st August 2012, and who has not by then been restored to the GSCC register, may make an application to the HCPC for restoration to Part 16 of the HCPC register.

(2) In the case of such a person, article 33 of the 2001 Order (restoration to the register of persons who have been struck off) applies as if—

(a) the person had been struck off by order of the relevant practice committee of the HCPC,

(b) in paragraph (2)(a) of that article, for “five years” there were substituted “three years”; and

(c) in paragraph (2)(b) of that article, the reference to an application for restoration to the register included an application made before 1st August 2012 for restoration to the GSCC register.

(3) An application made before 1st August 2012 for restoration to the principal part or the visiting European part of the GSCC register is to be treated from that day as having been made to the HCPC for restoration (or as the case may be readmission) to Part 16 of the HCPC register.

(4) If immediately before 1st August 2012 proceedings before the GSCC’s Restoration Committee or Registration Committee have begun pursuant to such an application, the HCPC is to make such arrangements as it considers just for the disposal of the matter.

(5) The relevant practice committee of the HCPC for the purposes of paragraph (2)(a) is—

(a) the Health Committee, if the person was removed from the GSCC register by the GSCC’s Conduct Committee under its health procedure;

(b) otherwise, the Conduct and Competence Committee.