SCHEDULE 2 TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS

Fitness to practise

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Any reference in any enactment (including an enactment comprised in the Act) or instrument to a direction given by a Fitness to Practise Panel shall be construed as including a reference to a corresponding direction made by—

a

the Professional Conduct Committee under the old section 36 or 38 of the Act;

b

the Health Committee under the old section 37 or 38 of the Act;

c

the Committee on Professional Performance under the old section 36A or 38 of, or under rules made under the old paragraph 5A of Schedule 4 to, the Act; or

d

a Fitness to Practise Panel under either the old sections 36 to 38 of, and the old Schedule 4 to, the Act (including rules made under that Schedule) or in accordance with the rules made under the old paragraph 5A of Schedule 4 to the Act.