(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order is the third commencement order made under the Health and Social Care Act 2008 and brings into force section 112 of that Act, which applies the civil standard of proof in fitness to practise proceedings of statutory regulators of health care professions. Section 112 is brought into force on 3rd November 2008 for the purposes of new proceedings; “new proceedings” are defined in article 2(2).