Explanatory Notes

Health and Social Care Act 2012

2012 CHAPTER 7

27 March 2012

Commentary on Sections

Part 7 – Regulation of Health and Social Care Workers

The Office of the Health Professions Adjudicator

Section 231 - Abolition of the Office of the Health Professions Adjudicator

1366.This section provides for the abolition of OHPA, for the transfer of its property, rights and liabilities to the Secretary of State and repeals the provisions in the Health and Social Care Act 2008, which establish OHPA and confer functions on it. It also brings into effect Part 4 of Schedule 15, which makes consequential amendments to a number of Acts and statutory instruments and makes savings provisions in connection with the abolition of OHPA.