Clause 26 - Suspension and disqualification of practitioners
Health and Social Care Bill
5:30 pm
Dr Peter Brand (Isle of Wight, Liberal Democrat)
I beg to ask leave to withdraw the amendment.
Amendment, by leave, withdraw.
Amendments made: No. 159, in page 24, line 9, leave out
`the body which regulates the practitioner's profession' and insert `prescribed persons, or persons of prescribed descriptions,'
No. 160, in page 24, line 10, at end insert—
`Withdrawal from lists
. Regulations may provide for circumstances in which a practitioner—
(a) whom a Health Authority are investigating in order to see whether there are grounds for exercising their powers under section 49F, 49G or 49H, or
(b) who has been suspended under section 49H,
may not withdraw from a list in which he is included.'.
No. 161, in page 24, leave out line 22 and insert
`any right of appeal which he may have'.
No. 162, in page 24, line 25, at end insert—
`Corresponding provision in Scotland and Northern Ireland
49MA.—(1) This section applies where it appears to the Secretary of State that there is provision in Scotland or Northern Ireland under which a person corresponding to a practitioner may be dealt with in any way which corresponds (whether or not exactly) with a way in which a practitioner may be dealt with under this group of sections.
(2) A decision in Scotland or Northern Ireland to deal with such a person in such a way is referred to in this section as a ``corresponding decision''.
(3) If this section applies, the Secretary of State may make regulations providing for the effect to be given in England and Wales to a corresponding decision.
(4) That effect need not be the same as the effect of the decision in the place where it was made.
(5) The regulations may not provide for a corresponding decision to be reviewed or revoked in England and Wales.'.—[Mr. Denham.]
Clause 26, as amended, ordered to stand part of the Bill.