General Medical Services Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997

Transfer of responsibility, absences, deputies, assistants and partners

28.  A doctor shall not engage as a deputy or employ as an assistant any doctor—

(a)who, having been disqualified under paragraph 3(b) of Schedule 11 to the Order (or under any corresponding provision in operation in England and Wales or Scotland) from inclusion of his name in the medical list (or, in England and Wales, the medical list of a Health Authority or, in Scotland, the medical list of a Health Board), is also the subject of a declaration under paragraph 3(c) of Schedule 11 to the Order (or any corresponding provision in operation in England and Wales or Scotland) that he is not fit to be engaged in any capacity in the provision of general medical services; or

(b)who is suspended by direction of the Tribunal, other than in a case falling within paragraph 8B(3) of Schedule 11 to the Order.