(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order, which is made under the General and Specialist Medical Practice (Education, Training and Qualifications) Order 2003, approves Rules made by the Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Board (“the Board”). The Rules approved prescribe the fees that are payable to the Board in respect of the exercise by the Board of certain of its functions. The functions in respect of which fees are payable include—
(a)issuing Certificates of Completion of Training for general practitioners and specialists;
(b)applications to the Board to determine whether certain persons not holding Certificates of Completion of Training have met particular standards of equivalence; and
(c)appeals against decisions of the Board.