31 Power to make regulations with respect to the registers.U.K.
(1)Subject to the provisions of this Act, the General Council may make regulations with respect to the form and keeping of ... [the registers] and the making of entries, alterations and corrections ... [in them].
(2)Regulations under this section may provide for ... [the registers] to be kept either by making entries in bound books or by recording the matters in question in any other manner; and if ... [the registers are] not kept by making entries in bound books, adequate precautions shall be taken for guarding against, and facilitating the discovery of, falsification.
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(4)Regulations under this section shall provide for the marking of the register of medical practitioners so as to distinguish those provisionally registered under section 15 [or 15A] above and those provisionally registered under section 21 [or 21C] above.
[(4A)Regulations under this section may provide for a maximum period for which a person may be provisionally registered, and may provide for—
(a)different maximum periods for which different classes of persons may be provisionally registered; and
(b)the maximum period not to apply to specified classes of persons.]
[(4B)Regulations under this section shall provide for the marking of the General Practitioner Register so as to distinguish between different categories of persons who are eligible to be registered in that register by virtue of section 34C(2)(b).]
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(8)Regulations under this section may make provision with respect to the restoration to ... [the registers] of the name of any person whose name has been erased from ... [them] by virtue of section 30(5) above or of any regulations made in pursuance of ... section 32(2) below.
(9)Regulations under this section made by virtue of subsection (8) above may include provision—
(a)for authorising the Registrar, notwithstanding anything in this Act, to refuse to restore to ... [the registers] ... the name of any such person as is mentioned in that subsection unless he furnishes to the Registrar such evidence of his identity and [fitness to practise] as may be prescribed; and
[(b)for securing that, in such circumstances as may be prescribed, such a person’s name is not so restored unless—
(i)the General Council or a committee of the General Council so direct after making such investigation into his fitness to practise as they think fit,
(ii)the practitioner’s licence to practise is restored in accordance with the regulations, or
(iii)both (i) and (ii) are met][; and
(c)where such a person is required to submit to or undertake an assessment by virtue of paragraph 5A or 5C of Schedule 4, for requiring the Registrar or the General Council or a committee of the Council to take into account—
(i)whether the assessment was carried out,
(ii)whether any requirements imposed in respect of the assessment were complied with, and
(iii)if the assessment was carried out, the results of the assessment].
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(10)Regulations made in pursuance of [subsection (4A), [(4B),] (8) or (9)] above shall not have effect until approved by order of the Privy Council.
(11)In this section “prescribed” means prescribed by regulations under this section.