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4.—(1) The HCPC and the PHR shall enter into arrangements (which may include financial arrangements) to facilitate the introduction of arrangements for the regulation of public health specialists by the HCPC arising out of this Order.
(2) The arrangements entered into under paragraph (1) shall include arrangements to ensure that all the names in the PHR register which are to be entered in the HCPC register with effect from the 1st July 2016 are so entered.
(3) If on the 30th June 2016, a person’s name is included in the PHR register, that person shall be registered in the part of the HCPC register which relates to public health specialists with effect from the 1st July 2016.
(4) If on the 30th June 2016, there is an outstanding application for a person’s name to be entered in the PHR register (including an application for restoration to that register), the HCPC—
(a)may determine that the person’s name is to be entered in the part of the HCPC register which relates to public health specialists; or
(b)shall dispose of the matter in such other manner as it considers just.
(5) Where a person who is registered in the HCPC register pursuant to paragraph (3) or (4), notifies the HCPC in writing no later than 12th August 2016 that they do not wish to be registered in the HCPC register, the HCPC must—
(a)remove that person’s name from the HCPC register; and
(b)treat that person as not having been so registered.
(6) Where a person is registered in the HCPC register pursuant to paragraph (3) or (4), the person’s home address shall not be published in the HCPC register without the person’s consent.
(7) Paragraph (8) applies if, on 30th June 2016, a person’s name is included in the PHR register but—
(a)the person’s registration is suspended; or
(b)the person is the subject of proceedings which could lead to the person’s removal or suspension from the PHR register.
(8) In the circumstances described in paragraph (7), the HCPC—
(a)may determine that the person’s name is not to be entered in the part of the HCPC register which relates to public health specialists; or
(b)shall dispose of the matter (including any proceedings) in such other manner as it considers just.
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