Proceedings of Fitness to Practice Committees
29.—(1) A Fitness to Practice Committee must determine cases against registered persons referred to it by an Investigating Committee in accordance with these Regulations and rules made by the Council under regulation 34.
(2) Where a Fitness to Practice Committee decides at any time after a case is referred to them by an Investigating Committee to discontinue that case, it must inform the registered person concerned and their employer that the—
(a)investigation has been discontinued; and
(b)registered person concerned had no case to answer.
(3) Where a Fitness to Practice Committee decides that a registered person has no case to answer, it must at that person’s request publish a statement to that effect.
(4) A Fitness to Practice Committee may refer a case to an Investigating Committee.