F1PART IIIA LICENCE TO PRACTISE AND REVALIDATION
Restoration of licence
29D Restoration of licence
1
The General Council shall make regulations under section 29A above for and in connection with authorising or requiring a licensing authority, in such cases or circumstances as may be prescribed, to restore a licence to practise to a medical practitioner whose licence to practise has been withdrawn.
2
Regulations by virtue of subsection (1) above shall make provision as to the procedure to be followed in connection with the restoration, or the refusal of the restoration, of a licence to practise by a licensing authority.
3
If a licensing authority refuses to restore a licence to practise to a medical practitioner, the Registrar shall give the practitioner notice of—
a
the decision;
b
the reasons given for the decision by the licensing authority concerned; and
c
the practitioner’s right of appeal under section 29F below.
4
Section 29H below applies in relation to a notice under subsection (3) above.
Pt. IIIA inserted (17.12.2002 for s. 29G(1)(a)(2)(3)) by The Medical Act 1983 (Amendment) Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/3135), arts. 1(2)(g), 10 (with transitional provisions in Sch. 2)