s 44A Supplementary provisions relating to financial penalties under sections 43B and 44
Schedule 3 (proceedings before the Investigating Committee, the Interim Orders Committee and Practice Committees: dentists) applies to proceedings before the Professional Conduct Committee under section 43B or 44 with the following modifications— (a) references to proceedings under Part 3 of the Act shall be read as including proceedings under sections 43B and 44; (b) references to a Committee shall be read as references to the Professional Conduct Committee; (c) in paragraph 1— (i) omit sub-paragraph (1), and (ii) for sub-paragraph (2) substitute— (2) A “party” to proceedings means— (a) the body corporate; (b) any director or former director of the body corporate against whom the proceedings are brought; or (c) the Council . (d) in paragraph 2— (i) omit sub-paragraph (1)(b), (ii) in sub-paragraph (2)(a), for “the person to whose registration the proceedings relate” substitute “the body corporate and any director or former director of the body corporate on whom a financial penalty may be imposed”, and (iii) in sub-paragraph (2)(g), omit “the person (if any) making the allegation and”; (e) omit paragraph 5; (f) in paragraph 6(5), for paragraphs (a) and (b) substitute— (a) where the body corporate’s principal office is in Scotland, the sheriff in whose sheriffdom that office is situated; and (g) omit paragraph 7.