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

Periods of disregard

3.—(1) In calculating the maximum period in respect of a person, no account is to be taken of the following periods (“periods of disregard”)—

(a) any period during which, having been removed from the register under any provision of the Act, that person’s name does not appear in the register;

(b) any period during which that person’s registration in the register is suspended under Part V(1);

(c) any period following receipt by the registrar of a notification referred to in paragraph (3) during which that person, being a person whose period of provisional registration has commenced, is unable to complete an acceptable programme they are participating in pursuant to section 10A(2).

(2) A person may have more than one period of disregard pursuant to sub-paragraph (c) of paragraph (1), but each such individual period—

(a) lasts only for so long as that person continues to participate in the acceptable programme in question, and

(b) cannot exceed 365 days from the date of receipt of the notification.

(3) A notification referred to in sub-paragraph (c) of paragraph (1) must—

(a) be in writing and given by the person referred to in that sub-paragraph stating that they are unable to complete the programme referred to in that sub-paragraph during the maximum period or, as the case may be, during any period of disregard pursuant to that sub-paragraph, and

(b) be accompanied by a declaration, signed by a person responsible for the programme in question, confirming that the person is participating in an acceptable programme and will be unable to complete it within the maximum period or, as the case may be, within any period of disregard pursuant to that sub-paragraph.

(4) A notification cannot be given earlier than—

(a) 180 days before the end of the maximum period, or

(b) in the case of a second or subsequent period of disregard pursuant to sub-paragraph (c) of paragraph (1), 180 days before the end of the preceding period of disregard pursuant to that sub-paragraph.

(1)

Part V was substituted by articles 2 and 13 of S.I. 2002/3135.

(2)

Section 10A was inserted by articles 2 and 24 of S.I. 2008/3131.