Health and Personal Social Services (Disciplinary Procedures) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996

Board’s Statement of Case

1.—(1) Where a disciplinary matter is referred to the appropriate discipline committee in accordance with regulation 5(1) the appropriate Board shall—

(a) send notice of the referral to the practitioner who is the subject of matter within 2 working days of the referral;

(b) subject to sub-paragraph (3) send a statement of case to the discipline committee and the practitioner within 28 days of the referral;

(c) where paragraph 2(1) applies send any notice under that sub-paragraph within 2 working days of the referral.

(2) The statement of case shall include—

(a) details of each provision of the practitioner’s terms of service with which it is alleged he has failed to comply specifying for each of those provisions the details of the alleged failure to comply;

(b) subject to sub-paragraph (3) copies of all relevant documentary evidence;

(c) the name and address of any witness the appropriate Board intends shall give evidence at a hearing before the discipline committee and a copy of any statement made by any such witness.

(3) The appropriate Board shall not in its statement of case include or refer to copies of documents which were created for the purposes of a complaint unless such documents concern evidence brought into issue by the practitioner.

(4) Where the Board requests an extension of the 28 day period mentioned in sub-paragraph (1)(b) before it expires, the chairman of the discipline committee may grant an extension of that period for a further 28 days from the day on which the period would otherwise expire.