Functions of area medical committee
27.—(1) The functions of an area medical committee which are prescribed for the purposes of section 9(6) of the Act (local consultative committees) are—
(a)the functions which are conferred upon it by these Regulations or by any order made under section 7 of the 2004 Act;
(b)the making of arrangements for the medical examination of a medical practitioner specified in paragraph (2), where the contractor or the Health Board is concerned that the medical practitioner is incapable of adequately providing services under the contract and it so requests with the agreement of the medical practitioner concerned; and
(c)the consideration of the report of any medical examination arranged in accordance with sub-paragraph (b) and the making of a written report as to the capability of the medical practitioner of adequately providing services under the contract to the medical practitioner concerned, the contractor and the Health Board with whom the contractor holds a contract.
(2) The medical practitioner referred to in paragraph (1)(b) is a medical practitioner who is—
(a)a contractor;
(b)where the contractor is a partnership, any partner in the partnership; or
(c)where the contractor is a company, any legal and beneficial shareholder in that company.