SCHEDULETHE GENERAL OPTICAL COUNCIL (FITNESS TO PRACTISE) RULES 2005

PART 7PROCEDURE AND ORDER OF PROCEEDINGS

Procedural and substantive hearings25

1

Where an allegation has been referred to the Fitness to Practise Committee—

a

there shall be one or more procedural hearings; and

b

there shall be a substantive hearing.

2

Paragraph (1) shall not apply in any case where the Investigation Committee have given a direction under rule 16(2).