The General Medical Council Professional Conduct Committee (EC Practitioners) (Procedure) Rules Order of Council 1989

Cases relating to conviction or conduct

4.  Where information in writing from a person acting in a public capacity or a complaint supported by one or more statutory declarations or affidavits is received by the Registrar, from which it appears to him that a visiting EC practitioner has been convicted of a criminal offence in any member State where he was practising medicine or may have been guilty of serious professional misconduct, the Registrar shall write to the practitioner,

(i) informing him of the particulars of the information or complaint received;

(ii) inviting him to submit within 28 days of the date of despatch of the letter any observations which he may wish to offer;

(iii) enclosing copies of these rules and of the principal rules and, where a complaint has been received, of the statutory declarations or affidavit furnished in support thereof; and

(iv) advising him that an inquiry may be held into the matter by the Professional Conduct Committee.