The General Medical Council (Licence to Practise and Revalidation) Regulations Order of Council 2012

Notices

2.—(1) Any notice required under these Regulations must be given in writing by—

(a) any means by which a notice may be given under section 29H(2) (notices)(1);

(b) sending it by ordinary post, to—

(i) the practitioner’s address in the register, or

(ii) if the conditions in paragraph (2) are satisfied, the practitioner’s last known address; or

(c) sending it by electronic mail to an electronic mail address that the practitioner has given the Registrar as an address to which the Registrar may send written communications about any matter to which the notice relates.

(2) The conditions are that—

(a) the practitioner’s last known address differs from the practitioner’s address in the register; and

(b) it appears to the Registrar that a letter sent to the practitioner at the practitioner’s last known address is more likely to reach the practitioner.

(3) For the purposes of this regulation (including section 29H to the extent applied by paragraph (1)(a)), references to the practitioner’s last known address are to be taken to include an address (other than an electronic mail address) which the practitioner has given the Registrar as an address to which the Registrar may send written communications about any matter to which the notice relates.

(4) For the purposes of this regulation—

(a) the giving of a notice effected by sending it by electronic mail is to be deemed to have been effected on the day on which the notice is sent;

(b) the giving of a notice effected by delivering it or leaving it at an address determined in accordance with this regulation is to be deemed to have been effected on the day on which it is delivered or left; and

(c) the giving of a notice effected by sending it by ordinary post, is to be deemed to have been effected—

(i) in the case of first class post, on the second working day after the day on which it was posted, and

(ii) in the case of second class post, on the fourth working day after the day on which it was posted.

(5) For the purposes of paragraph (4)(c), “working day” means any day other than—

(a) a Saturday or Sunday;

(b) Christmas Day or Good Friday; or

(c) a day which is a bank holiday under the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971(2) in the part of the United Kingdom to which the notice is sent.

(1)

Section 29H was inserted by S.I. 2002/3135.

(2)

1971 c. 80. Paragraph 2 of Schedule 1 was amended by section 2(2) of the St Andrew’s Day Bank Holiday (Scotland) Act 2007 (asp. 2).