Applications for restoration
10.—(1) Subject to paragraph 7 and to sub-paragraph (2), a person in relation to whom a removal order was made in accordance with the Care Council for Wales (Conduct) Rules 2011 or the Care Council for Wales (Fitness to Practise) Rules 2014 before 3 April 2017, and who has not by that day been restored to the CCW register, may make an application to SCW for restoration to the SCW register.
(2) Notwithstanding the provision made by article 2, such an application is to be determined by SCW in accordance with the provision made by the Care Council for Wales (Fitness to Practise) Rules 2014.
(3) An application made before 3 April 2017 for restoration to the principal part, the added part or the visiting European part of the CCW register is to be treated on or after that day as having been made to SCW for restoration to the corresponding part of the SCW register.
(4) Notwithstanding the provision made by article 2, if immediately before 3 April 2017 proceedings before the CCW’s Restoration Committee have begun pursuant to such an application, the proceedings are to be concluded by SCW in accordance with the provision made by the Care Council for Wales (Fitness to Practise) Rules 2014.
(5) But this paragraph does not apply to—
(a)an application made by an adult care home worker or a domiciliary care worker for restoration to the added part of the register, or
(b)proceedings in respect of such an application.