The Anaesthesia Associates and Physician Associates Order 2024

Final Measures - review

14.—(1) The Regulator may at any time review a Final Measure which remains in force in respect of an associate where that associate’s entry in the register is subject to a condition or is suspended, including where a question arises as to compliance with a condition on that associate’s registration.

(2) On a review under this article, the Regulator may revoke a Final Measure if, in the opinion of the Regulator, the fitness to practise of the associate in respect of whom the Final Measure is imposed is no longer impaired.

(3) On a review under this article, the Regulator may—

(a) extend the period for which a Final Measure is to remain in force,

(b) vary a condition to which an associate’s entry in the register is subject,

(c) revoke a Final Measure and impose a different Final Measure in respect of an associate,

if, in the opinion of the Regulator, the fitness to practise of that associate remains impaired.

(4) For the purposes of paragraph (3)(a), the Regulator may only extend the period—

(a) specified under article 13(1), or

(b) previously extended under paragraph (3)(a),

by a period not longer than 12 months on each occasion.

(5) Article 13 applies to the Regulator in imposing a different Final Measure under paragraph (3)(c) as it applies to a case examiner and Panel.

(6) Article 10(10) applies to a different Final Measure imposed under paragraph (3)(c).

(7) Where—

(a) an appeal is brought under article 16 or 17 against a decision or a part of a decision, and

(b) the decision, or part of it, is revoked or revised under this article before the appeal is determined,

the appeal (or the part of the appeal which relates to the revoked or revised part of the decision) will lapse.