Part V Professional Conduct and Fitness to Practise

41BF1 Interim orders made by committees other than the Interim Orders Committee

1

This section applies where the Professional Conduct Committee, the Committee on Professional Performance or the Health Committee have made an order under section 41A(3)(c) or (d).

2

Subject to subsections (3) and (4), any Committee referred to in subsection (1) may—

a

do any of the things referred to in section 41A(3)(a) to (d) in relation to the order; and

b

before the expiry of the order, extend it or further extend it.

3

Subsection (2)(b) applies equally to a replacement order made by one of those Committees by virtue of section 41A(3)(c) or (d) as applied by subsection (2)(a).

4

An order may not be extended under this section for more than three months at a time.

5

Subsections (5) and (10) to (13) of section 41A apply for the purposes of this section as they apply for the purposes of that section.

6

For the purposes of rules made under paragraph 1 of Schedule 4 for the Committees referred to in subsection (1), “proceedings” in that paragraph includes proceedings under this section.