Explanatory Notes

Health and Social Care Act 2008

2008 CHAPTER 14

21 July 2008

Territorial Extent

Interpretation

Part 2 – Regulation of Health Professions and Health and Social Care Workforce
The Office of the Health Professions Adjudicator
Section 106: Administration of oaths and issuing of witness summonses etc.

327.Section 106 makes provision for fitness to practise panels to require persons giving evidence during a hearing to give the evidence under oath and for witnesses to be summoned. Similar provision is made in subsection (1) for hearings in England and Wales or in Northern Ireland to that made in subsection (4) for hearings in Scotland.