Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Act 2020

Notifications under Act

185. The Act of 2011 is amended by the insertion of the following section after section 106:

“106A. (1) Where the Board, the Preliminary Proceedings Committee, the Fitness to Practise Committee or the chief executive officer is required or authorised under this Act to notify a registered nurse, former registered nurse, registered midwife, former registered midwife, registered candidate or former registered candidate of a decision or other matter concerning the person, the notification shall be sent by pre-paid post or electronically to him or her at the address stated in the register of nurses or midwives or candidate register (as the case may be) in which his or her name is or was (as the case may be) entered.

(2) Where the Board or the chief executive officer is required or authorised under this Act to notify a person (not being a registered nurse, former registered nurse, registered midwife, former registered midwife, registered candidate or former registered candidate) who has made an application under this Act of a decision or other matter concerning the application, the notification shall be sent by pre-paid post or electronically to the person at the address stated in the application.

(3) Where a notification under this Act has been sent to a person in accordance with subsection (1) or (2), the notification shall be deemed, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, to have been duly delivered to the person on the 3rd working day after the day on which it was so sent.”.