330ELimitations on membership of Suitability Panel and Panels convened under Part 5

330E Limitations on membership of Suitability Panel and Panels convened under Part 5

(1) During the transitional period, a member of the Suitability Panel must not be one of the members that constitute the Suitability Panel for the purposes of completing a pending matter if—

(a) that member of the Suitability Panel is a member of a Panel convened under section 68 to determine whether a WCES worker or carer is to be excluded from providing a WCES service or a specified class of WCES services; and

(b) that WCES worker or carer is the subject of the pending matter being completed by the Suitability Panel.

(2) Despite anything to the contrary in section 68, the Regulator must not appoint a Panel candidate to be a member of a Panel convened to determine whether a WCES worker or carer is to be excluded from providing a WCES service or a specified class of WCES services if, at the time of the appointment—

(a) the Panel candidate is a member of the Suitability Panel; and

(b) that WCES worker or carer is the subject of a pending matter being completed by the Suitability Panel.

S. 330F inserted by No. 17/2023 s. 18.