The General Medical Council (Maximum Period of Provisional Registration) Regulations Order of Council 2015

Lapse of registration

4.—(1) A person’s provisional registration lapses upon expiry of the maximum period.

(2) Where a person is subject to fitness to practise proceedings under Part V, that person’s provisional registration will not lapse until the proceedings have been disposed of on the occurrence of—

(a) a decision not to refer the allegation to a medical and a lay Case Examiner or, for any other reason, not to proceed beyond rule 4 of the Fitness to Practise Rules(1);

(b) a decision not to refer the allegation to the Investigation Committee or a Fitness to Practise Panel under rule 8 of the Fitness to Practise Rules(2), or to cancel any such referral under rule 28(3)(b) of those Rules(3);

(c) a decision to issue a warning in accordance with rule 11(2), (4) or (6) of the Fitness to Practise Rules;

(d) a decision to cease consideration of the allegation upon receipt of undertakings;

(e) a final determination by a Fitness to Practise Panel under rule 17 of the Fitness to Practise Rules(4) or, where the next hearing in the proceedings following the end of the prescribed period is held under rule 22(5), under that rule.

(3) A person whose provisional registration has lapsed cannot apply for a further period of provisional registration.

(1)

Rule 4 was amended by rule 3 of the Rules in the Schedule to S.I. 2009/1913.

(2)

Rule 8 was last amended rule 4 of the Rules in the Schedule to S.I. 2009/3168.

(3)

Rule 28 was substituted by rule 12 of the Rules in the Schedule to S.I. 2009/1913 and last amended by rule 2 of the Rules in the Schedule to S.I. 2013/815.

(4)

Rule 17 was last amended by rule 6 of the Rules in the Schedule to S.I. 2013/815.

(5)

Rule 22 was last amended by rules 1 and 15 of the Rules in the Schedule to S.I. 2009/1913.