General Medical Services Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997

Transfer of responsibility, absences, deputies, assistants and partners

29.—(1) A doctor shall—

(a) inform the Board of the name of any assistant he employs and of the termination of such employment;

(b) on request, furnish on a form supplied by the Board any information in connection with the employment notified to the Board in head (a) which may be required by the Agency for the purposes of the Health and Personal Social Services (Superannuation) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995(1);

(c) not employ any one or more assistants for a total period of more than 3 months in any period of 12 months without the consent of the Board.

(2) The Board shall periodically review and may withdraw any consent given but, before refusing or withdrawing consent, the Board shall consult the Local Medical Committee and shall notify the doctor of any refusal or withdrawal of consent.

(3) The doctor may, within the period of 30 days beginning with and including the day on which he receives notification of the Board’s determination, appeal to the Department against any refusal or withdrawal of consent.

(4) Any withdrawal of consent under this paragraph shall not have any effect until the expiration of a period of one month after the date of notification of the withdrawal, but if the doctor appeals to the Department against the withdrawal and the Department dismisses the appeal, the withdrawal shall not take effect until after such date as the Department determines being a date falling not less than one month after the date of the dismissal of the appeal.

(1)

S.R. 1995 No. 95