Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Council for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence (Appointment, Procedure etc.) Regulations 2008 and come into force on 1st January 2009.

(2) In these Regulations—

“the 2002 Act” means the National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002;

“the appointor” means –

(a)

in the case of the appointment of the chair, the Privy Council; and

(b)

in the case of the appointment of a non-executive member, the person who appoints that member under paragraph 4 of Schedule 7 to the 2002 Act;

“the chair” means the chair of the Council;

“the Council” means the Council for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence(1);

“final outcome”, in relation to any proceedings where there are rights of appeal, means the outcome of the proceedings—

(a)

once the period for bringing an appeal has expired without an appeal being brought; or

(b)

if an appeal is brought in accordance with those rights, once those rights have been exhausted;

“licensing body” means any body anywhere in the world that licenses or regulates any profession;

“non-executive member” means a non-executive member of the Council;

“spent conviction” means—

(a)

in relation to a conviction by a court in Great Britain, a conviction that is a spent conviction for the purposes of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974(2); or

(b)

in relation to a conviction by a court in Northern Ireland, a conviction that is a spent conviction for the purposes of the Rehabilitation of Offenders (Northern Ireland) Order 1978(3).

(1)

The Council’s name was changed by section 113 of the Health and Social Care Act 2008.