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

Suspended registration

7.—(1) This article applies if—

(a) a transferred person’s registration in the GSCC register was immediately before 1st August 2012 suspended by virtue of a suspension order imposed by the GSCC’s Conduct Committee or an interim suspension order imposed by its Preliminary Proceedings Committee, and

(b) the suspension would have continued on 1st August 2012.

(2) From 1st August 2012, the person’s registration in the HCPC register is to be treated as if it had been suspended on the same terms and for the same duration by order of the relevant practice committee of the HCPC (which is to be taken to have had the power to make such an order).

(3) Accordingly, for so long as the suspension is treated as continuing, the person is to be treated as not being registered in the HCPC register notwithstanding that the person’s name appears in it.

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

(a) the Investigating Committee, if the suspension was imposed by way of an interim suspension order made by the GSCC’s Preliminary Proceedings Committee;

(b) the Health Committee, if the suspension was imposed by the GSCC’s Conduct Committee under its health procedure;

(c) otherwise, the Conduct and Competence Committee.