- Status
- In Force
- Penalty ceiling
- Regulated
Does it bind you?
Business-side roles with duties under this instrument.
Any Person1
Plus 1 duty on the regulator, Crown ministers and public bodies — folded into the section list below.
Other Acts binding the same actors
If a role above is yours, these are the other instruments that most often bind it.
Any Person — also bound by 2340 other Acts
Human Medicines Regulations 2012
184 duties
Merchant Shipping Act 1995
144 duties
Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016
104 duties
Communications Act 2003
92 duties
Road Traffic Act 1988
92 duties
What it requires
Regulations creating concrete business duties or carrying penalties, grouped as the instrument is structured. Titles link to the source text — blue means you’re leaving for legislation.gov.uk.
s.016
Disclosure provisions
Regulated
- Disclose your defence evidence and cooperate on the hearing timetableAny Person
s.045
Witness evidence
Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- The Society must not compel the person concerned to be a witnessStatutory regulator
47 other provisions — procedural and definitional
s.001
Citation and commencement
s.002
Interpretation
s.003
Duty to provide information to the registrar
s.004
Fitness to practise criteria
s.005
Initial action in respect of allegations
s.006
Notices of referral and documents to be supplied to persons concerned
s.007
Voluntary removal of names from the register
s.008
Voluntary removal: supplementary provision
s.009
Applications for restoration
s.010
Procedures of the Scrutiny Committee
s.011
Agreement of undertakings by the Scrutiny Committee
s.012
Recording in the register of decisions by the Scrutiny Committee
s.013
Notices
s.014
Reconsideration of allegations
s.015
Action upon referral of an allegation
s.017
Inspection of documents
s.018
Notices of hearing other than interim order hearings
s.019
Interim Order Notices and court referrals
s.020
Hearing bundles
s.021
Request for a case management meeting
s.022
Case management meetings
s.023
Case management directions
s.024
Practice directions
s.025
Clinical and other specialist advice
s.026
Evidence
s.027
Absence of the person concerned
s.028
Agreement of undertakings and giving of advice and warnings
s.029
Recording in the register of decisions by the Statutory Committee
s.030
Joinder of allegations for a joint hearing
s.031
Consideration of allegations that relate to more than one category of impairment
s.032
Consideration of additional allegations
s.033
Additional evidence for review hearings
s.034
Procedure at principal hearings before the Statutory Committee in fitness to practise proceedings
s.035
Procedure at principal hearings before the Statutory Committee in disqualification proceedings
s.036
Procedure at review hearings
s.037
Procedure at restoration hearings
s.038
Procedure at interim order hearings
s.039
Postponements and adjournments
s.040
Disposal of allegations without hearings
s.041
Attendance of the public at hearings
s.042
Representation
s.043
Amendment of the particulars of the allegation at principal hearings
s.044
Burden and standard of proof
s.046
Vulnerable witnesses at hearings
s.047
Review of undertakings
s.048
Costs of the hearing
s.049
Notes and transcripts of hearings
Duty extraction and severity labels are Guvnor’s analysis of the instrument, not the instrument itself. Always verify against the linked source text.