Health and Social Care Professionals Act 2005
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Functions and powers of Council. |
8.—(1) The Council shall do all things necessary and reasonable to further its object and shall exercise its powers and perform its functions in the public interest. | |
(2) Without limiting the Council's responsibilities under subsection (1), its functions are to— | ||
(a) oversee and co-ordinate the activities of registration boards, | ||
(b) provide administrative support and secretarial assistance to registration boards and their committees, | ||
(c) receive applications and make decisions under Part 4 concerning the refusal of registration boards to grant or restore registration, | ||
(d) enforce standards of practice for registrants of the designated professions, including the codes of professional conduct and ethics adopted by their registration boards, | ||
(e) establish committees of inquiry into complaints under Part 6 against registrants of the designated professions, | ||
(f) make decisions and give directions under Part 6 relating to the imposition of disciplinary sanctions on registrants of the designated professions, | ||
(g) advise the Minister, either on its own initiative or at the Minister's request, on all matters relating to the Council's functions under this Act, | ||
(h) encourage registration boards to collaborate with each other, where practicable, including in the professional education and training of registrants, | ||
(i) issue assessment guidelines for the purposes of section 91 , and | ||
(j) perform any function that may be assigned by the Minister to the Council and that relates to— | ||
(i) the registrants of any designated profession, their education and training and the practice of the profession, or | ||
(ii) the implementation of any directive or regulation of the Council of the European Union concerning the practice of, and persons engaged in, health care or social care. | ||
(3) The Council has power to do anything that appears to it to be requisite, advantageous or incidental to, or to facilitate, the performance of its functions under this Act. |