Part IV General Provisions Concerning Registration
31 Power to make regulations with respect to the registers.
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Regulations under this section may provide for F14... F14the registers to be kept either by making entries in bound books or by recording the matters in question in any other manner; and if F15... F15the registers are not kept by making entries in bound books, adequate precautions shall be taken for guarding against, and facilitating the discovery of, falsification.
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Regulations under this section may provide for a maximum period for which a person may be provisionally registered, and may provide for—
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different maximum periods for which different classes of persons may be provisionally registered; and
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the maximum period not to apply to specified classes of persons.
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Regulations under this section shall provide for the marking of the General Practitioner Register so as to distinguish between different categories of persons who are eligible to be registered in that register by virtue of section 34C(2)(b).
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Regulations under this section made by virtue of subsection (8) above may include provision—
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for authorising the Registrar, notwithstanding anything in this Act, to refuse to restore to F19... F19the registersF9... the name of any such person as is mentioned in that subsection unless he furnishes to the Registrar such evidence of his identity and F11fitness to practise as may be prescribed; and
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for securing that, in such circumstances as may be prescribed, such a person’s name is not so restored unless—
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the General Council or a committee of the General Council so direct after making such investigation into his fitness to practise as they think fit,
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the practitioner’s licence to practise is restored in accordance with the regulations, or
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both (i) and (ii) are metF21; and
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where such a person is required to submit to or undertake an assessment by virtue of paragraph 5A or 5C of Schedule 4, for requiring the Registrar or the General Council or a committee of the Council to take into account—
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whether the assessment was carried out,
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whether any requirements imposed in respect of the assessment were complied with, and
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if the assessment was carried out, the results of the assessment.
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In this section “prescribed” means prescribed by regulations under this section.