UK Statutory Instrument 2002 United Kingdom

Health Professions Order 2001

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What's here

34 compliance obligations, 1 practical guide · 2 journeys

Penalty landscape

3 of 34 obligations carry an unlimited fine. 31 have no criminal penalty — flagged in the list below.

Who this Act binds

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  • Any Person 7

Plus 27 non-business duties on Crown ministers, regulators, local authorities or tribunals — shown collapsed under each section below.

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What this Act requires

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Part I

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Part II

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The Health and Care Professions Council and its Committees

Part III — REGISTRATION

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Registrar

Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
  • The Council must appoint a Registrar and determine their terms Statutory regulator
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Access to register etc.

Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
  • HCPC must maintain a public register of health professionals Statutory regulator
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Registration

Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
  • HCPC must process registration applications within statutory time limits Statutory regulator
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Lapse of registration

Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
  • HCPC must protect registrants from lapsing during investigations Statutory regulator
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The register: specified state professionals - supplemental provisions

Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
  • HCPC must follow specific rules when registering state professionals Statutory regulator
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Indemnity arrangements

  • Maintain appropriate professional indemnity insurance Any Person
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Article 12: further provision relating to specified state professionals

Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
  • HCPC must specify and schedule aptitude tests for state professionals Statutory regulator
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Requirement for social workers in England to be registered

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Temporary registration in emergencies involving loss of human life or human illness etc

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Visiting health professionals from relevant European States

Part IV — EDUCATION AND TRAINING

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Education and Training Committee

Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
  • Education and Training Committee must advise the HCPC on professional standards Statutory regulator
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Education and Training

Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
  • HCPC must establish and publish standards for health education and training Statutory regulator
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Exercise of function of approving courses for approved mental health professionals

Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
  • HCPC Education and Training Committee must approve AMHP courses Statutory regulator
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Criteria for approving courses for approved mental health professionals

Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
  • HCPC must set and publish standards for mental health training courses Statutory regulator
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Part V — FITNESS TO PRACTISE

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Screeners: supplementary provisions

Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
  • HCPC Screeners must follow specific procedures when reviewing allegations Statutory regulator
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The Investigating Committee

Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
  • HCPC Investigating Committee must investigate and notify you of allegations Statutory regulator
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The Health Committee

Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
  • Health Committee must investigate fitness to practise allegations Statutory regulator
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Legal assessors

Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
  • HCPC must appoint qualified legal assessors to provide legal advice Statutory regulator
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Medical assessors

Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
  • HCPC must appoint and manage medical assessors Statutory regulator
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Registrant assessors

Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
  • HCPC may appoint registrant assessors to provide professional advice Statutory regulator
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Information for specified state professionals

Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
  • HCPC must provide regulatory information and respond to professional enquiries Statutory regulator
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Part VI

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Part VII — OFFENCES

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Offences

Unlimited fine
  • Falsely represent staff as registered health professionals Any Person
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Offence: hearing aid dispensers

Unlimited fine
  • Performing hearing aid dispenser functions while unregistered Any Person

Part VIII — MISCELLANEOUS

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Accounts of the Council

Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
  • HCPC must maintain, audit, and publish annual accounts Statutory regulator
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Arrangements with other persons who maintain registers of health or social care workers

Schedules

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Membership

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A member may resign at any time by notice in...

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No member may be appointed for more than three consecutive...

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The President

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Procedure etc. of Council and committees

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(1) In appointing non-Council members to any committee set up...

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(1) Decisions of the Council and committees shall be made...

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Powers of the Council

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Privy Council functions

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Education and Training Committee

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Practice Committees

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(1) The members of each Practice Committee shall include registered...

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Membership: general

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Matters for the order of the Privy Council under article 3(7A)

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(1) The Council shall provide in rules for an election...

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Having consulted such persons as it considers appropriate, the Privy...

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Of the members appointed by the Privy Council, there shall...

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On a proposal from the Council or otherwise the Privy...

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Where the President is a registrant member, the Privy Council...

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Where a member appointed by the Privy Council ceases to...

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(1) Where a member does not complete his term of...

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Tenure of members

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The initial membership of the Council

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The register

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Until such date as the first order under article 6(1)...

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Where on the appointed day there are outstanding applications for—...

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The entries in the register kept under the 1960 Act...

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The Registrar

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If the first Registrar ceases to hold office before a...

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Functions of the Council during the transitional period

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Fitness to practise proceedings

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An appeal— (a) under section 3(3) or 9 of the...

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Transfer of staff and property

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The transitional periods

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(1) The Privy Council may by order provide for the...

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An order mentioned in paragraph 20(1)(a) may be made by...

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Such an order may apply to all, or any description...

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(1) The contract of employment of an employee transferred under...

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Certificates of competence issued by a board to a professional...

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Provisions on ODPs - register

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Where a person is registered in Part 13 of the...

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Provisions on ODPs - fitness to practise

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The Members

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Tenure of members

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Where a member ceases to be a member, the Privy...

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The Privy Council shall determine the duration, which may not...

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Election Scheme

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Appointment of first President

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Where the President is a practitioner member, the Privy Council...

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In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires— “the 1960...

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(1) For the purposes of this Order, a person (“P”)...

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In this Order, words importing the masculine gender include the...

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Schedule 4 para.1

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Schedule 4 para.2

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Schedule 4 para.3

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Schedule 4 para.4

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Schedule 4 para.5

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Schedule 4 para.6

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Schedule 4 para.7

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Schedule 4 para.8

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Schedule 4 para.9

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HCPC

Health and Care Professions Council

Statutory regulator for 15 health and care professions including physiotherapists, paramedics, occupational therapists, radiographers, dietitians, biomedical scientists, and others. Maintains registers and …

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Health Act 1999 1999 Primary Act

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