Part IV General Provisions Concerning Registration

32 Registration fees.

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 F2... ;

c

authorising the Registrar, notwithstanding anything in this Act, to refuse to make any entry in, or restore any entry to, the register F3... until a fee prescribed by regulations under this section has been paid.

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Any fee prescribed by the General Council under subsection (1) in connection with the making of an entry in the register relating to a specified state professional must be—

a

reasonable and proportionate to the cost of dealing with such a person’s application;

b

transparent and made public in advance; and

c

payable by electronic means through the General Council’s website.

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...

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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 F6in the emergency powers doctors listF7... and accordingly this section shall not apply in relation thereto.

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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.

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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.