http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/254/article/46Health Professions Order 2001Health careCareHealth and social care professionalsHealth and safety investigationsHealth care services and specialismsHEALTH CARE AND ASSOCIATED PROFESSIONS;HEALTH PROFESSIONSStatute Law Database2025-05-21Expert Participation2025-01-01 This Order provides for the regulation of a number of health professions (arts therapists; chiropodists; clinical scientists; dietitians; medical laboratory technicians; occupational therapists; orthoptists; paramedics; physiotherapists; prosthetists and orthotists; radiographers; and speech and language therapists) it creates a regulatory body, the Health Professions Council, which is required to set standards of education, training, conduct and performance and to put in place arrangements to ensure that they are met (article 3). It provides for the Council to keep a register of qualified members of the professions and creates four statutory committees: the Investigating Committee, Conduct and Competence Committee, Health Committee and Education and Training Committee (article 3(9)). The Order replaces the regulatory system provided for by the Professions Supplementary to Medicine Act 1960. PART VIII<Strong>MISCELLANEOUS</Strong>Accounts of <Abbreviation Expansion="the Health Professions Council">the Council</Abbreviation>461The Council shall—akeep accounts in such form as the Privy Council may determine;bprepare annual accounts in respect of each financial year, in such form as the Privy Council may determine.2The annual accounts shall be audited by persons the Council appoints.3The Council shall ensure that the persons it appoints are eligible for appointment as statutory auditors under Part 42 of the Companies Act 2006 (statutory auditors).4As soon as is reasonably practicable after the end of the financial year to which the annual accounts relate, the Council shall—acause them to be published together with any report on them made by the auditors; andbsend a copy of the annual accounts and of any such report to the Privy Council, the Comptroller and Auditor General and the Auditor General for Scotland.5The Comptroller and Auditor General shall examine, certify and report on the annual accounts.6For the purposes of his examination, the Comptroller and Auditor General may inspect the accounts of the Council and any records relating to them.7The Privy Council shall lay before each House of Parliament and the Scottish Parliament a copy of the annual accounts certified by the Comptroller and Auditor General, any report of the auditors and the report of the Comptroller and Auditor General prepared under paragraph (5).8In this article, “financial year” means—athe period beginning with the date on which the Council is established and ending with the next 31st March following that date, andbeach successive period of 12 months ending with 31st March.Art. 46 not in force at made date, see art. 1(2)Art. 46 in force at 1.4.2002 as notified in the London Gazette dated 25.3.2002, see art. 1(3)Art. 46(3) substituted (14.5.2009) by The Health Care and Associated Professions (Miscellaneous Amendments and Practitioner Psychologists) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/1182), art. 1(2)(c), Sch. 2 para. 14(a)Words in art. 46(4)(b) substituted (14.5.2009) by The Health Care and Associated Professions (Miscellaneous Amendments and Practitioner Psychologists) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/1182), art. 1(2)(c), Sch. 2 para. 14(b)Words in art. 46(7) inserted (14.5.2009) by The Health Care and Associated Professions (Miscellaneous Amendments and Practitioner Psychologists) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/1182), art. 1(2)(c), Sch. 2 para. 14(c)