2014 No. 1272

Health Care And Associated ProfessionsDoctors

The General Medical Council (Voluntary Erasure and Restoration following Voluntary Erasure) (Amendment) Regulations Order of Council 2014

Made

Laid before Parliament

Coming into force

At the Council Chamber, Whitehall the 13th day of May 2014

By the Lords of Her Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council

The General Medical Council has made the General Medical Council (Voluntary Erasure and Restoration following Voluntary Erasure) (Amendment) Regulations 2014 which are set out in the Schedule to this Order, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 31A of the Medical Act 19831.

By virtue of section 31A(2) of that Act, such Regulations shall not have effect until approved by Order of the Privy Council.

Citation and commencement1

This Order may be cited as the General Medical Council (Voluntary Erasure and Restoration following Voluntary Erasure) (Amendment) Regulations Order of Council 2014 and comes into force on 25th June 2014.

Privy Council approval2

Their Lordships, having taken these Regulations into consideration, are pleased to, and do approve them.

Richard TilbrookClerk of the Privy Council

SCHEDULEThe General Medical Council (Voluntary Erasure and Restoration following Voluntary Erasure) (Amendment) Regulations 2014

Article 2

These Regulations are made by the General Medical Council in exercise of the powers conferred by section 31A of the Medical Act 1983.

Citation and commencement1

These Regulations may be cited as the General Medical Council (Voluntary Erasure and Restoration following Voluntary Erasure) (Amendment) Regulations 2014 and come into force on 25th June 2014.

Amendments to the General Medical Council (Voluntary Erasure and Restoration following Voluntary Erasure) Regulations 20042

1

The General Medical Council (Voluntary Erasure and Restoration following Voluntary Erasure) Regulations 20042 are amended as follows.

2

In regulation 5 (restoration procedure where fitness to practise issues arise)—

a

after paragraph (2), insert—

2A

The Registrar may apply rule 23(1)(b) and (c)3 of Part 6 of the Fitness to Practise Rules as is in the Registrar’s opinion appropriate to the consideration of the restoration application under paragraph (3) as if the application for restoration were made under that rule.

b

in paragraph (3)—

i

in sub-paragraph (a)(i), omit “and”,

ii

after sub-paragraph (a)(ii), insert—

iii

any information, documents or evidence obtained by virtue of paragraph (2A); and

Given under the official seal of the General Medical Council this 30th day of April 2014.

Professor Sir Peter RubinChair
Niall DicksonChief Executive and Registrar
EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order approves the Regulations set out in the Schedule to it which amend the General Medical Council (Voluntary Erasure and Restoration following Voluntary Erasure) Regulations 2004 (“2004 Regulations”) (scheduled to S.I. 2004/2609).

Regulation 2(2)(a) inserts a new provision in regulation 5 of the 2004 Regulations, which applies rule 23(1)(b) and (c) of the General Medical Council (Fitness to Practise) Rules 2004 (Scheduled to S.I. 2004/2608), enabling the Registrar to direct a medical practitioner seeking restoration to the register of medical practitioners to undertake an assessment of his performance, health or knowledge of English in accordance Schedule 1, 2 or 3 of those Rules.

Regulation 2(2)(b) also amends regulation 5 of the 2004 Regulations, enabling the Case Examiners to take account of any documents, information or evidence obtained as a result of a direction to undertake a performance, health or knowledge of English assessment.