The General Medical Council (Maximum Period of Provisional Registration) Regulations Order of Council 2015

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the General Medical Council (Maximum Period of Provisional Registration) Regulations 2014 and come into force on 1st April 2015.

(2) In these Regulations—

“the Act” means the Medical Act 1983;

“the Fitness to Practise Rules” means the General Medical Council (Fitness to Practise) Rules 2004(1);

“provisional registration” means registration under section 15, 15A, 21 or 21C(2).

(3) In these Regulations, references to numbered Parts, sections and subsections are references to so numbered Parts, sections and subsections of the Act.

(1)

Scheduled to S.I. 2004/2608.

(2)

Section 15 was substituted by articles 2 and 26 of S.1. 2006/1914; section 15A was inserted by regulation 2 of S.I. 2000/3014 and last amended by regulation 9 of S.I. 2007/3101; section 21 was last amended by regulation 15 of S.I. 2007/3101 and section 21C was inserted by articles 2 and 35 of S.I. 2006/1914 and last amended by regulation 17 of S.I. 2007/3101.