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3. A Medical Assessor shall have the following additional functions—
(a)to give advice to the General Council on matters within his professional competence arising in connection with any matter which the General Council is considering;
(b)at the request of the Committee, to examine a registered osteopath against whom an allegation has been made and to report on his fitness to practise with or without conditions;
(c)to be present at such meetings of the Committee as the Committee may request at which an allegation concerning an osteopath’s physical or mental condition is being considered and to advise the Committee on the medical significance of the evidence before the Committee;
(d)to be present at such meetings of the General Council as the General Council may request at which an appeal under section 29 of the Act is being considered and which involves consideration of the physical or mental condition of an Appellant, to advise the General Council and Committee on the medical significance of the evidence before the General Council and Committee and to question any witness giving evidence of an oral hearing of such an appeal;
(e)to inform the General Council or the Committee if it appears to him that but for such advice, there is a possibility of a mistake being made in judging the medical significance of such evidence (or the absence of evidence) on any particular matter relevant to the matter before the General Council or that Committee, whether relating to the fitness to practise of the osteopath or such other question as the General Council or that Committee or the Chairman of either may think relevant.
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