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

Barring orders

8.—(1) This article applies if immediately before 1st August 2012 a transferred person was subject to a barring order imposed by the GSCC’s Restoration Committee.

(2) From 1st August 2012, the person’s right to make an application for restoration to the HCPC register is to be treated as having been suspended indefinitely by a direction made, on the same date as that of the barring order, by the relevant practice committee of the HCPC under article 33(9) of the 2001 Order(1).

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

(1)

This provides a power for the HCPC’s Practice Committees to direct that a person may not make any further applications for restoration. After 3 years such a person may apply for the direction to be reviewed.