The General Pharmaceutical Council (Fitness to Practise and Disqualification etc. Rules) Order of Council 2010

1. Introductory Text

2. Their Lordships, having taken these Rules into consideration, are pleased...

3. This Order may be cited as the General Pharmaceutical Council...

4. Signature

5. 1. SCHEDULE

      The General Pharmaceutical Council (Fitness to Practise and Disqualification etc.) Rules 2010

      1. PART 1

         1. 1. Citation and commencement

         2. 2. Interpretation

         3. 3. Service of documents

         4. 4. Duty to provide information to the Registrar

         5. 5. Fitness to practise criteria

      2. PART 2

         1. 6. Initial action in respect of allegations

         2. 7. Notices of referral and documents to be supplied to persons concerned

         3. 8. Applications for restoration

      3. PART 3

         1. 9. Procedures of the Investigating Committee

         2. 10. Agreement of undertakings by the Investigating Committee

         3. 11. Notices

         4. 12. Reconsideration of allegations

      4. PART 4 the Committee

         1. 13. Action upon referral of an allegation

         2. 14. Disclosure provisions

         3. 15. Inspection of documents

         4. 16. Notices of hearing other than interim order hearings

         5. 17. Interim Order Notices and court referrals

         6. 18. Hearing bundles

         7. 19. Request for a case management meeting

         8. 20. Case management meetings

         9. 21. Case management directions

      5. PART 5

         1. 22. Practice directions

         2. 23. Clinical and other specialist advice

         3. 24. Evidence

         4. 25. Absence of the person concerned

         5. 26. Agreement of undertakings and giving of advice and warnings

         6. 27. Joinder of allegations for a joint hearing

         7. 28. Consideration of allegations that relate to more than one category of impairment

         8. 29. Consideration of additional allegations

         9. 30. Additional evidence for review hearings

      6. PART 6

         1. 31. Procedure at principal hearings before the Committee in fitness to practise proceedings

         2. 32. Procedure at principal hearings before the Committee in disqualification proceedings

         3. 33. Procedure in relation to hearings of registration cases before the Committee

         4. 34. Procedure at review hearings

         5. 35. Procedure at restoration hearings

         6. 36. Procedure at interim order hearings

      7. PART 7

         1. 37. Postponements and adjournments

         2. 38. Disposal of allegations without hearings

         3. 39. Attendance of the public at hearings

         4. 40. Representation

         5. 41. Amendment of the particulars of the allegation at principal hearings

         6. 42. Burden and standard of proof

         7. 43. Witness evidence

         8. 44. Vulnerable witnesses at hearings

         9. 45. Review of undertakings

         10. 46. Costs of the hearing

         11. 47. Notes and transcripts of hearings

6. Explanatory Note