(1)Subject to the provisions of this Act, the General Council may make regulations with respect to the charging of fees in connection with the making of entries in the register of medical practitioners, and in particular—
(a)prescribing a fee to be charged on the entry of a name or qualification in the register or on the restoration of any entry to the register;
(b)prescribing a fee to be charged in respect of the retention in the register of the name of a person in any year subsequent to the year beginning with the date on which he was first registered;
(c)authorising the Registrar, notwithstanding anything in this Act, to refuse to make any entry in, or restore any entry to, the register or a particular list in it until a fee prescribed by regulations under this section has been paid.
(2)Regulations under this section may authorise the Registrar to erase from the register of medical practitioners the name of—
(a)any person who, after such notices and warnings as may be prescribed by the regulations, fails to pay a fee prescribed in pursuance of subsection (1)(b) above; F1. . .
F1(b). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(3)If a person whose name has been erased from the register in accordance with regulations made in pursuance of subsection (2) above at any time pays—
(a)such sum (if any) as may be prescribed for the purposes of this subsection by regulations under this section; and
(b)the fee (if any) which, if his name had not been so erased, would be due from him in respect of the current year,
his name shall be restored to the register.
(4)Regulations under this section shall not provide for any fee to be chargeable in respect of anything done in pursuance of a direction under section 41 below.
(5)No fee shall be charged in relation to registration as a visiting [F2EEA practitioner] and accordingly this section shall not apply in relation thereto.
(6)Where on an application in that behalf by any person a direction is given—
(a)that he be registered with limited registration under section 22 above; or
(b)for his name to be erased from the register of medical practitioners with limited registration by virtue of section 24(1) above,
the General Council may include therein a direction that the right to registration or erasure conferred thereby shall be subject to the payment by him of such fee as may be specified in the direction.
(7)Regulations under this section prescribing fees may provide for the charging of different fees in different cases and may provide that fees shall not be chargeable in cases prescribed by the regulations.
(8)Regulations under this section shall not have effect until approved by order of the Privy Council.
(9)For the avoidance of doubt it is hereby declared that in this section “entry” includes an entry by way of alteration of a previous entry.
Textual Amendments
F1S. 32(2)(b) and preceding word repealed (18.5.2000) by 1995 c. 51, ss. 4, Sch. para. 3; S.I. 2000/1344, art. 2
F2Words in s. 32(5) substituted (10.7.1996) by S.I. 1996/1591, reg. 7, Sch. 2 para. 8