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

Council for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence

16.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), with effect from 1st August 2012 the profession of social worker in England is to be taken for the purposes of regulation 2(2)(j)(iii) of the Council for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence (Appointment, Procedure etc.) Regulations 2008(1) not to be a profession regulated by the 2001 Order, despite the coming into force of section 213 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (which provides for the regulation by the HCPC of the profession of social worker in England).

(2) Paragraph (1)—

(a) applies only in relation to a chair or non-executive member of the Council for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence who was in office as such on 1st August 2012;

(b) applies in relation to the term of office of such a person which was current on 1st August 2012, and also (if such a person is re-appointed on the expiry of that term of office) to the immediately succeeding term of office.

(1)

S.I. 2008/2927. Regulation 2(2)(j)(iii) provides for a person who is or has been a member of a profession regulated by the 2001 Order to be disqualified for appointment as the chair or a non-executive member of the Council for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence. Regulation 2(2)(j)(iii) is substituted by paragraph 57 of the Schedule to the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (Consequential Provision–Social Workers) Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/1479).