The National Health Service (Service Committees and Tribunal) Amendment Regulations 1990

Amendment of regulation 14 of the principal Regulations

12.  In regulation 14 of the principal Regulations (procedure on withholding)–

(a) for sub-paragraph (a) of paragraph (1), there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph:–

“(a) after considering–

(i) (whether in the course of an appeal to him under regulation 11(1)(b) or in the course of representations made to him under regulation 11(3) or otherwise) any report made by a service committee and the decision of the Committee thereon to the effect that there has been a breach of the terms of service,

(ii) the report of the person or persons holding an inquiry under paragraph (5) of regulation 12, or

(iii) any report of the Tribunal after an inquiry under Part III of these Regulations,

that such practitioner, chemist or optician has failed to comply with the terms of service applicable to him; or”;

(b) in paragraph (2)(a)–

(i) for the words “a reasonable”, there shall be substituted the word “an”,

(ii) after the word “matter”, there shall be inserted the words “within one month of notice having been sent to him as to the nature of the direction which the Secretary of State is minded to make”.