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

Registration subject to admonishment

6.—(1) This article applies if—

(a) immediately before 1st August 2012 there was a record of an admonishment on a transferred person’s entry in the GSCC register(1), and

(b) the record of the admonishment would have continued on 1st August 2012.

(2) From 1st August 2012, the person is to be treated as if subject to a caution order made, in the same terms and for the same duration as the admonishment, 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 admonishment was imposed by the GSCC’s Conduct Committee under its health procedure;

(b) otherwise, the Conduct and Competence Committee.

(1)

This is provided for in the General Social Care Council (Conduct) Rules 2008.

(2)

Article 29(5)(d) of the 2001 Order deals with caution orders.