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

Registration subject to conditions

5.—(1) This article applies if a transferred person’s registration in the GSCC register was immediately before 1st August 2012 subject to conditions imposed—

(a) on the grant of the transferred person’s application to the GSCC for registration or for renewal of registration, or

(b) by the GSCC’s Restoration Committee(1).

(2) If the conditions would have continued in force on 1st August 2012, that person’s registration in Part 16 of the HCPC register continues to be subject to those conditions as if they had been imposed in the same terms and for the same duration in a conditions of practice order made by the relevant practice committee of the HCPC (which is to be taken to have had the power to make such an order)(2).

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

(a) the Health Committee, if the conditions were imposed by the GSCC’s Restoration Committee for reasons relating to the transferred person’s health;

(b) otherwise, the Conduct and Competence Committee.

(1)

The GSCC’s Restoration Committee, and its Preliminary Proceedings Committee and Conduct Committee, and their powers and procedure, are provided for in the General Social Care Council (Conduct) Rules 2008. These rules are not contained in a Statutory Instrument but may be obtained on request from the HCPC at Park House, 184 Kennington Park Road, London, SE11 4BU, and are available on the HCPC’s website: www.hcpc-uk.org .

(2)

See article 29 of the 2001 Order for the order-making powers of the HCPC’s Health Committee and Conduct and Competence Committee. Paragraph (5)(c) of that article deals with conditions of practice orders.