Health and Social Care Professionals Act 2005

Direction by Council to impose disciplinary sanction.

66.—(1) If a committee of inquiry finds that an allegation made by a complainant against a registrant is substantiated, the Council shall, after considering the committee's report and any recommendation made by the registration board concerned within the time allowed under section 65 , direct the board to impose on the registrant one or more than one disciplinary sanction specified in the direction.

(2) However, the Council may not direct a registration board to cancel the registration of a registrant on the grounds of a conviction for an offence referred to in section 52 (1)(g) unless—

(a) in the Council's opinion, the nature of the offence or the circumstances in which it was committed ought to disqualify the registrant for practising the designated profession, or

(b) a conviction for such offence would render a person ineligible for registration as a registrant of the designated profession.

(3) On giving a direction to a registration board to impose on a registrant a disciplinary sanction referred to in section 65 (1)(b), (c), or (e), the Council shall specify in the direction—

(a) in the case of a disciplinary sanction referred to in section 65 (1)(b), the nature of the conditions to be attached to his or her registration,

(b) in the case of a disciplinary sanction referred to in section 65 (1)(c), the period of suspension of his or her registration, and

(c) in the case of a disciplinary sanction referred to in section 65 (1)(e), the period for which he or she is prohibited from applying for restoration to the register.