| Guvnor

Enforced by: GOC
Status: In Force
Penalty ceiling: Regulated

Does it bind you?

Business-side roles with duties under this instrument.

Any Person3 Applicant1

Plus 12 duties 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 2684 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

Applicant — also bound by 325 other Acts

Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016 46 duties

Human Medicines Regulations 2012 42 duties

The Land Registration Rules 2003 25 duties

Regulation (EU) No 1178/2011 (Aircrew) 20 duties

Value Added Tax Regulations 1995 18 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.010 Assessment notification Regulated

Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator

Registrar must notify appellant/applicant of assessor and meeting dateStatutory regulator

s.012 Assessment report Regulated

Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator

Assessor must send assessment report to registrar and appellantStatutory regulator

s.017 Hearings in public Regulated

Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator

Registration Appeals Committee must hold hearings in public with privacy exceptionsTribunal / Court

s.021 Where the Registration Appeals Committee decide to adjourn a hearing... Regulated

Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator

GOC registrar must notify appellants of adjourned hearing datesStatutory regulator

s.023 Vulnerable witnesses Regulated

Appoint a legally qualified person to cross-examine alleged victims in sexual casesApplicant

s.024 Evidence on oath Regulated

Take an oath or affirm before giving oral evidence at a GOC hearingAny Person

s.025 Legal advisers Regulated

Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator

Legal adviser must attend and advise at appeal hearingsTribunal / Court

s.026 Clinical advisers Regulated

Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator

Clinical adviser must attend and advise when health is consideredTribunal / Court

s.027 Specialist Advisers Regulated

Specialist adviser must attend hearing and disclose advice to partiesAny Person

s.028 Notification of hearing date: appellants Regulated

Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator

GOC registrar must notify appellants of hearing date and rightsStatutory regulator

s.029 Notification of hearing date: applicants Regulated

Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator

GOC registrar must notify restoration applicants of hearing detailsStatutory regulator

s.031 Advance provision of information Regulated

Exchange witness statements and documentary evidence 14 days before appeal hearingAny Person

s.032 Committee copies of documents Regulated

Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator

Registrar must give Registration Appeals Committee documents 7 days before hearingStatutory regulator

s.039 Determination or direction of the Registration Appeals Committee Regulated

Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator

Registration Appeals Committee must decide appeal and any restoration directionTribunal / Court

s.040 Written decision Regulated

Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator

Registration Appeals Committee must give written decision with reasonsTribunal / Court

s.042 Where the Registration Appeals Committee are considering making an order... Regulated

Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator

Registration Appeals Committee must consider ability to pay before costs awardTribunal / Court

31 other provisions — procedural and definitional

s.001 Citation and commencement

s.002 Interpretation

s.003 Information to accompany applications for restoration of registration or entry

s.004 Information required from individual applicants for restoration of registration

s.005 Additional information required from individual applicants for restoration of registration as a student

s.006 Additional information required from individual applicants for restoration of registration as an optometrist or a dispensing optician

s.007 Information required from applicants for restoration of registration as a business registrant

s.008 Information required from applicants for restoration of an entry relating to a specialty

s.009 Appointment of assessors and direction for assessment

s.011 Date of meeting

s.013 Failure to submit or comply with an assessment

s.014 Representation

s.015 Proceedings in the absence of appellant or applicant

s.016 Joinder

s.018 Exclusion from hearings

s.019 Adjournment

s.020 (1) Upon the hearing of an application under rule 19,...

s.022 Admissibility of evidence

s.030 Date of hearing: appellants and applicants

s.033 Order of proceedings

s.034 (1) Following the presentation of evidence by the appellant or...

s.035 Evidence in rebuttal

s.036 Questions

s.037 Submissions

s.038 Voting

s.041 Costs and expenses

s.043 Period of Payment

s.044 Record of Hearing

s.045 Service of documents

s.para.2 The General Optical Council, in exercise of their powers under...

s.paragraph/1 This Order may be cited as the General Optical Council...

Duty extraction and severity labels are Guvnor’s analysis of the instrument, not the instrument itself. Always verify against the linked source text.

The General Optical Council (Registration Appeals Rules) Order of Council 2005

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What it requires