Regulation 5: Fit and proper persons: directors
Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014 (SI 2014/2936)
Last verified by Verivius on 19 May 2026. Next review due 17 Aug 2026.
Plain British summary
If you are a body other than a partnership (a company, charity, NHS trust, etc.), every director or person doing director-equivalent work has to meet the fit-and-proper-persons standard. Good character, the right competence, sound health (with reasonable adjustments), no serious misconduct or mismanagement on their record, and none of the grounds of unfitness in Part 1 of Schedule 4.
Full text on legislation.gov.uk. Treat quotes on this page as targeted excerpts, not as a substitute for the regulation.
Targeted verbatim quotes (7)
“the individual is of good character,”
Reg 5(3)(a) (good character)
“the individual has the qualifications, competence, skills and experience which are necessary for the relevant office or position or the work for which they are employed,”
Reg 5(3)(b) (qualifications + competence)
“the individual is able by reason of their health, after reasonable adjustments are made, of properly performing tasks which are intrinsic to the office or position for which they are appointed or to the work for which they are employed,”
Reg 5(3)(c) (health fitness)
“the individual has not been responsible for, been privy to, contributed to or facilitated any serious misconduct or mismanagement (whether unlawful or not) in the course of carrying on a regulated activity or providing a service elsewhere which, if provided in England, would be a regulated activity,”
Reg 5(3)(d) (no serious misconduct or mismanagement)
“none of the grounds of unfitness specified in Part 1 of Schedule 4 apply to the individual.”
Reg 5(3)(e) (Schedule 4 Part 1 grounds of unfitness)
“take such action as is necessary and proportionate to ensure that the office or position in question is held by an individual who meets such requirements, and”
Reg 5(5)(a) (enforcement: replace the office holder)
“if the individual is a health care professional, social worker or other professional registered with a health care or social care regulator, inform the regulator in question.”
Reg 5(5)(b) (enforcement: inform the regulator)
What Verivius does for you
Director records via People + Documents
Not currently surfaced as a dedicated workflow. Director records sit alongside other staff in the People register; supporting evidence (CV, professional registrations, DBS checks, declarations of unfitness checks against Part 1 of Schedule 4) can be attached via the Documents register. A dedicated fit-and-proper-persons workflow with state tracking for each director is a candidate for a future release.