Part 2Regulation of health professions and health and social care workforce
The Office of the Health Professions Adjudicator
I1109OHPA rules: supplementary
1
This section applies to the power of the OHPA to make rules under any of sections 100, 101, 103, 104, 105 and 107.
2
The power may be exercised—
a
so as to make different provision for different cases or different classes of case or different provision in respect of the same case or class of case for different purposes of this Act,
b
either in relation to all cases to which the power extends, or in relation to all those cases subject to specified exceptions, or
c
so as to make any supplementary, incidental, consequential, transitional, transitory or saving provision which the OHPA considers necessary or expedient.
3
Before making rules the OHPA must consult—
a
the Council for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence,
b
if the rules affect the profession regulated by the Medical Act 1983, the General Medical Council and any other bodies which appear to the OHPA to represent that profession,
c
if the rules affect the professions regulated by the Opticians Act 1989, the General Optical Council and any other bodies which appear to the OHPA to represent those professions,
d
bodies which appear to the OHPA to represent the interests of patients, and
e
such other persons as the OHPA considers appropriate.
4
Rules do not come into force until they have been approved by order of the Privy Council.
5
The Privy Council may approve rules—
a
as submitted to them, or
b
subject to such modifications as appear to them to be necessary.
6
Where the Privy Council propose to approve rules subject to modifications, they must—
a
notify the OHPA of the modifications they propose to make, and
b
consider any observations which the OHPA may make on the modifications.