Version Superseded: 03/08/2000
Point in time view as at 01/01/1997.
Medical Act 1983, Cross Heading: The General Medical Council is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 05 March 2025. There are changes that may be brought into force at a future date. Changes that have been made appear in the content and are referenced with annotations.
(1)There shall continue to be a body corporate known as the General Medical Council (in this Act referred to as “the General Council”) having the functions assigned to them by this Act.
(2)The General Council shall be constituted as provided by Her Majesty by Order in Council under this section subject to the provisions of Part I of Schedule 1 to this Act.
(3)There [F1shall be six] committees of the General Council known as the Education Committee, the Preliminary Proceedings Committee, the Professional Conduct Committee [F2, the Assessment Referral Committee, the Committee on Professional Performance] and the Health Committee (in this Act referred to as “the statutory committees”) constituted in accordance with Part III of Schedule 1 to this Act and having the functions assigned to them by [F2or under] this Act.
(4)Schedule 1 to this Act shall have effect with respect to the General Council, its branch councils and committees, its proceedings, its officers and its accounts.
Textual Amendments
F1Words in s. 1(3) substituted (1.1.1997) by 1995 c. 51, s. 4, Sch. para. 2(a); S.I. 1996/1631, art. 2(3)(b)
F2Words in s. 1(3) inserted (1.1.1997) by 1995 c. 51, s. 4, Sch. para. 2(b)(c); S.I. 1996/1631, art. 2(3)(b)
(1)There shall continue to be kept by the registrar of the General Council (in this Act referred to as “the Registrar”) two registers of medical practitioners registered under this Act containing the names of those registered and the qualifications they are entitled to have registered under this Act.
(2)The two registers referred to are “the register of medical practitioners” consisting of four lists, namely—
(a)the principal list,
(b)the overseas list,
(c)the visiting overseas doctors list, and
(d)the visiting [F3EEA practitioners] list,
and “the register of medical practitioners with limited registration”.
(3)Medical practitioners shall be registered as fully registered medical practitioners or provisionally or with limited registration as provided in Parts II and III of this Act and in the appropriate list of the register of medical practitioners or in the register of medical practitioners with limited registration as provided in Part IV of this Act.
Textual Amendments
F3Words in s. 2(2)(d) substituted (10.7.1996) by S.I. 1996/1591, reg. 7, Sch. 2 para. 1
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