The Medical Act 1983 (Amendment) Order 2000

Amendment of Part III of Schedule 1

15.  In Part III of Schedule 1(1) (constitution of committees of the General Council—

(a) after paragraph 19 there shall be inserted the following paragraph—

“The Interim Orders Committee

19A.   Subject to the power of the Committee under paragraph 25 to co-opt members, the Interim Orders Committee shall be constituted as provided by the General Council by rules under this paragraph.”;

(b) in each of paragraphs 20, 21, 21A, 21B and 22, at the beginning there shall be inserted “Subject to the power of the Committee under paragraph 25 to co-opt members,”;

(c) in paragraph 23, after “who sits as a member of” there shall be inserted “the Interim Orders Committee,”;

(d) after paragraph 23 there shall be inserted the following paragraph—

“23A.   Rules under paragraph 19A above shall secure that a person who sits as a member of the Preliminary Proceedings Committee, the Assessment Referral Committee, the Professional Conduct Committee, the Committee on Professional Performance or the Health Committee shall not sit as a member of the Interim Orders Committee in any subsequent proceedings on that case.”;

(e) in paragraph 24, after “paragraph” there shall be inserted “19A,”;

(f) for paragraph 25(2) there shall be substituted the following—

“(2) A Committee of the General Council may, if authorised to do so by the General Council, co-opt such persons (whether or not members of the Council) as the Committee think fit.”.

(1)

Paragraph 23 was substituted by the Medical (Professional Performance) Act 1995, Schedule, para. 13, and paragraph 24 amended by the Schedule, para. 14 to that Act.