The General Medical Council (the Professional Conduct Committee, the General Health Committee and the Committee on Professional Performance) (Amendment) Rules Order of Council 2000

Substitution of rule 31

9.  For rule 31 (service of documents) there shall be substituted the following:

“31.   Any notice or other document required by rules 5(3), 6(2), 17(1), 17(10), 19(2), 30C(1), Part VIA, paragraphs 3(1) and 4(1) of Schedule 1 and paragraphs 12(3)(a) and 14(3) of Schedule 3 to be given or sent to any person shall be given or sent—

(a) by personal delivery, or by sending it to him by the Registered post service or by a postal service in which delivery or receipt is recorded at his usual or last-known address, which in the case of a doctor shall be his addres in the Register or, if his last-known address differs from the address in the Register, his last-known address;

(b) in the case of a person represented by—

(i) a solicitor, by personal delivery, or by sending it to him by the Registered post service or by a postal service in which delivery or receipt is recorded at his professional address;

(ii) any other person, by personal delivery, or by sending it to him by the Registered post service or by a postal service in which delivery or receipt is recorded at his usual or last-known address.”