2000 No. 308

MEDICAL PROFESSION

The General Medical Council (Legal Assessors) Amendment (Scotland) Rules 2000

Made

Laid before the Scottish Parliament

Coming into force

The Scottish Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred upon them by section 43 of, and paragraph 7(3) of Schedule 4 to, the Medical Act 19831 and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Rules:

Citation, commencement, interpretation and extent1

1

These Rules may be cited as the General Medical Council (Legal Assessors) Amendment (Scotland) Rules 2000 and shall come into force on 29th September 2000.

2

In these Rules–

a

“the 1980 Rules” means the General Medical Council (Legal Assessors) Rules 19802; and

b

a rule referred to by number alone means the rule so numbered in the 1980 Rules.

3

These Rules extend to Scotland only.

Amendment of the 1980 Rules2

1

In rule 1(2), in the definition of “the Committee”, after the words “being either” there are inserted the words “the Interim Orders Committee,”.

2

In rule 4, after the words “proceedings before” where they first occur, there are inserted the words “the Interim Orders Committee,”.

3

In rule 5, after the words “on any occasion” there are inserted the words “the Interim Orders Committee,”.

SUSAN C DEACONA member of the Scottish ExecutiveSt Andrew’s House,Edinburgh

(This note is not part of the Rules)

These Rules, which extend to Scotland only, amend the General Medical Council (Legal Assessors) Rules 1980 (“the 1980 Rules”), which regulate the functions of legal assessors appointed by the General Medical Council to advise the Professional Conduct Committee, the Assessment Referral Committee, the Committee on Professional Performance, the Health Committee and the Preliminary Proceedings Committee on questions of law arising in proceedings before them.

The amendments are necessary as a consequence of amendments to the Medical Act 1983 under which a new committee of the General Medical Council, called the Interim Orders Committee is created. These Rules provide for the 1980 Rules to apply to the new committee, in the same way as they apply to the existing ones.