The General Medical Council (Registration (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations) (No. 2) Order of Council 1987

Made15th December 1987

At the Council Chamber, Whitehall, the 15th day of December 1987

By the Lords of Her Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council

Whereas in pursuance of section 32 of the Medical Act 1983(1) the General Medical Council have made the Medical Practitioners Registration (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 1987:

And whereas by subsection (8) of the said section such regulations shall not have effect until approved by Order of the Privy Council:

Now, therefore, Their Lordships, having taken the said regulations into consideration, are hereby pleased to approve the same as set out in the Schedule to this Order. This Order may be cited as the General Medical Council (Registration (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations) (No. 2) Order of Council 1987.

Clerk of the Privy Council

SCHEDULETHE MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS REGISTRATION (FEES) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS 1987

The General Medical Council in exercise of their powers under section 32 of the Medical Act 1983 hereby make the following regulations:—

Citation, commencement and interpretation1

1

These regulations may be cited as the Medical Practitioners Registration (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 1987 and shall come into force on 1st February 1988, with the exception of Regulation 4 (increase in annual retention fee) which shall come into force on 1st May 1988.

2

In these regulations “the principal regulations” means the Medical Practitioners Registration (Fees) Regulations 1985 (2).

Revocation of the Medical Practitioners Registration (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 19862

These regulations revoke the Medical Practitioners Registration (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 1986(3).

Amendment of principal regulations

3

For Regulations 3(2) and 4(2) of the principal regulations there shall be substituted the following:—

3
2
The scrutiny fee shall be:—
a
For an application under section 19:
i
in the case of a person who has been provisionally registered…£22
ii
in the case of any other person…£42
b
For an application under section 21…£20
c
For an application by virtue of section 25…£140
except in the case of a person who has obtained a primary United Kingdom qualification, when no fee shall be payable
d
For an application under section 27…£42
except in the case of a person who has held registration under this section at any time within the preceding three years, when no fee shall be payable.
4
2
The fee for making an entry in the register shall be:—
a
On provisional registration under section 15 of the Act…£35
b
On provisional registration under section 21 of the Act…£56
c
On full registration under section 3 of the Act:
i
in the case of a person who is or has at any time been provisionally registered…£65
ii
in the case of any other person…£100
except in the case of a person who is already fully registered when no fee shall be payable
d
On full registration under section 19 of the Act:
i
in the case of a person who is or has at any time been provisionally registered…£84
ii
in the case of any other person…£140
e
On full registration by virtue of section 25 of the Act…£140
f
On registration under section 27 of the Act…£140.

4

For Regulation 6 of the principal regulations there shall be substituted the following:—

6
The annual retention fee shall be £30.

5

For Regulation 15 of the principal regulations there shall be substituted the following:—

15
The restoration fee shall be £60.

Given under the official seal of the General Medical Council this

J. N. WaltonPresident9th day of November, nineteen hundred and eighty-seven.

(This note is not part of the Order)

The regulations approved by this Order:

a

provide that visiting overseas specialist doctors who have paid the scrutiny fee in respect of an application, under section 27 of the Medical Act 1983, for temporary full registration by the General Medical Council shall not be required to pay a further scrutiny fee in respect of a further application for registration under the same section made within three years; and

b

increase, by between 16 and 18 per cent, the fees for making an entry in the medical register under sections 3 and 15 of the Act, and, by 50 per cent, the fees payable for annual retention in, and for restoration to, the register.