The Health Care and Associated Professions (Miscellaneous Amendments and Practitioner Psychologists) Order 2009

Transitory and transitional provisions relating to the introduction of statutory registration of practitioner psychologists

5.—(1) The HPC and the BPS, and the HPC and the AEP, shall enter into arrangements (which may include financial arrangements) to facilitate the introduction of the new arrangements for the statutory regulation of practitioner psychologists arising out of this Order.

(2) The arrangements entered into under paragraph (1) shall include arrangements to ensure that all the names in the BPS register and the AEP register which are to be entered in the HPC register with effect from the appointed day for practitioner psychologists are so entered.

(3) Subject to paragraphs (5) and (6), if on the day before the appointed day for practitioner psychologists a person’s name is included in the BPS register or the AEP register (or both), the person shall be registered in the part of the HPC register which relates to practitioner psychologists with effect from the appointed day for practitioner psychologists.

(4) If on the appointed day for practitioner psychologists there is an outstanding application for a person’s name to be entered in the BPS register or the AEP register (including an application for restoration to the register), the HPC—

(a)may determine that the person’s name is to be entered in the part of the HPC register which relates to practitioner psychologists; and

(b)shall dispose of the matter in such manner as it considers just.

(5) If on the day before the appointed day for practitioner psychologists a person’s name is included in the BPS register or the AEP register but—

(a)the person’s registration is suspended (whether temporarily or permanently); or

(b)the person is the subject of proceedings which could lead to the person’s removal or suspension from the BPS register or the AEP register,

paragraph (6) applies.

(6) In the circumstances described in paragraph (5), the HPC—

(a)may determine that the person’s name is not to be entered in the part of the HPC register which relates to practitioner psychologists; and

(b)shall dispose of the matter (including any proceedings) in such manner as it considers just.

(7) Where a person is registered in the HPC register pursuant to paragraph (3) or (4), the person’s home address shall not be published in the HPC register without the person’s consent.

(8) Subject to paragraph (9), the Privy Council may—

(a)with the consent of the BPS, by order provide for the transfer from the BPS to the HPC of any property, rights or liabilities;

(b)with the consent of the AEP, by order provide for the transfer from the AEP to the HPC of any property, rights or liabilities,

and any order under this paragraph may include such supplementary, incidental or consequential provisions as the Privy Council considers necessary or expedient.

(9) An order under paragraph (8) may not relate to land or any interest in, or right over, land.