PART I

SOCIAL CARE WORKERS

Miscellaneous and supplemental

Publication etc of information about fitness to practise
16A
1
If it considers it is in the public interest to do so, the Councilmay publish or disclose to any person—
a
information relating to a particular registered person's fitness to practise, or
b
information of a particular description relating to the fitness to practise of—
i
every registered person, or
ii
every registered person of a particular description.
2
For the purposes of subsection (1)(b) the Council need not considerwhether it is in the public interest to publish or disclose the information in question in relation to each registered person to whom it relates.
3
In this section “
information
” includes—
a
information relating to, or arising, before a person's registration (as well as after it), and
b
information arising outside the United Kingdom (as well as in it).
4
In this section references to a registered person include a person whohas at any time been a registered person.
S. 16A inserted (13.5.2016) by Health and Personal Social Services (Amendment) Act (NorthernIreland) 2016 (c. 23), ss. 2(3), 8