The General Medical Council (Fitness to Practise and Over-arching Objective) and the Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care (References to Court) Order 2015 No.

1. Introductory Text

2. PART 1

   1. 1. Citation, commencement and interpretation

3. PART 2

   1. 2. Establishment of the MPTS as a committee of the General Medical Council

   2. 3. Medical Practitioners Tribunals and Interim Orders Tribunals: establishment etc.

   3. 4. Articles 2 and 3: consequential provision

   4. 5. Allegations of impaired fitness to practise: consideration by Medical Practitioners Tribunal

   5. 6. Interim orders

   6. 7. Proceedings in fitness to practise cases: overriding objective of procedural rules

   7. 8. Proceedings in fitness to practise cases: procedural rules

   8. 9. Proceedings in fitness to practise cases: undertakings

   9. 10. Assessments of professional performance or health

   10. 11. Assessments of knowledge of English

   11. 12. Assessments: consequential provision

   12. 13. Legal assessors

   13. 14. Case managers

   14. 15. Disclosure of information

   15. 16. Appeals by persons subject to decisions by Tribunals

   16. 17. Appeals by the General Medical Council

   17. 18. References to court by the Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care

   18. 19. Restoration of names to the register

   19. 20. Annual reports of the MPTS

4. PART 3

   1. 21. The over-arching objective

5. PART 4

   1. 22. Investigation Committee: vexatious allegations, facts more than 5 years old, reviews

   2. 23. Registration Appeals Panels

   3. 24. Service of notification of decisions by email

   4. 25. Appeal of review orders

   5. 26. Minor corrections etc.

6. PART 5

   1. 27. Orders by the Privy Council: procedure

7. Signature

8. Explanatory Note