The General Medical Council Fitness to Practise Committees and Review Board for Overseas Qualified Practitioners (Amendment) Rules Order of Council 2003

Case co-ordinator

7.—(1) Where an Assessment Panel is to be constituted pursuant to directions given by either the Assessment Referral Committee or the Committee on Professional Performance or in circumstances specified in rule 6, a case co-ordinator shall—

(a) appoint members of the Assessment Panel from the lists referred to in rule 8(4); and

(b) perform the functions conferred on a case co-ordinator under these Rules.

(2) The Council shall appoint one or more doctors to act as case co-ordinators for the purposes of these Rules.”.

(c) for rule 30A(1), the following shall be substituted—

“(1) This Part shall apply in relation to any application by a person for restoration of his name to the register—

(a) under regulation 3 of the Voluntary Erasure Regulations, which has been referred to the Committee by the Registrar under regulation 4(8) of those Regulations; or

(b) under regulation 2 of the Restoration Regulations, which has been referred to the Committee by the Registrar under regulation 3(8) of those Regulations.”;

(d) in rule 30C(1), for the words “the 2000 Regulations” there shall be substituted the words “the Voluntary Erasure Regulations or the Restoration Regulations, whichever is applicable”;

(e) in rule 30D(9), for the words “two years” there shall be substituted the words “one year” and for the words “regulation 3 of the 2000 Regulations” there shall be substituted “regulation 4(11) of the Voluntary Erasure Regulations or regulation 3(11) of the Restoration Regulations, whichever is applicable,”; and

(f) after rule 30E the following rule shall be inserted—

“Procedure for consideration of restoration following voluntary erasure applications made before 1st July 2003

30F   An application for restoration which has been referred to the Committee by virtue of regulation 6(b) of the Voluntary Erasure Regulations in accordance with the Medical Practitioners (Voluntary Erasure and Restoration) Regulations 2000 shall be dealt with in accordance with this Part as in force on 30th June 2003.”.