Health and Social Care Professionals Act 2005

Power to charge and recover fees.

18.—(1) The Council may charge such fees as may, from time to time, be set by the Council for any or all of the following:

(a) registration under this Act;

(b) retention of registration;

(c) the issue of a certificate of registration to a registrant;

(d) the removal of a name from a register under section 39 (1);

(e) the restoration of a name to a register under section 39 (2), 40 (2) or 73 ;

(f) any other service that the Council or a registration board may provide.

(2) The Council may recover as a simple contract debt in any court of competent jurisdiction, from a person by whom the fee is payable, any amount due and owing to the Council in respect of a fee charged under this section.