Medical Act 1983

29D Restoration of licenceU.K.

(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as may be prescribed, to restore a licence to practise to a medical practitioner whose licence to practise has been withdrawn.

[F1(1A)Regulations by virtue of subsection (1) above may not include provision as to licences to practise that are withdrawn by virtue of section 41C below.]

(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.