18.—(1) Where it comes to the notice of the Registrar of the GMC that a person is no longer a registered medical practitioner, the Registrar shall remove that person’s name from the General Practitioner Register or the Specialist Register (as the case may be), and shall send him notice of having done so.
(2) Subject to paragraph (3) and (4), where a person removed from the General Practitioner Register or the Specialist Register pursuant to paragraph (1) becomes once again a registered medical practitioner, the Registrar shall, if requested to do so by that person, once again include that person’s name in the General Practitioner Register or the Specialist Register (as the case may be) and shall send him notice of having done so.
(3) Where it comes to the notice of the Registrar of the GMC that in the case of an oral and maxillo-facial surgeon—
(a)his registration in the register of dentists (kept under section 14 of the Dentists Act 1984 M1 (the dentists register and the registrar)) has been suspended under any provision of that Act; or
(b)he is no longer a registered dentist,
the Registrar shall remove that person’s name from the Specialist Register and shall send him notice of having done so.
(4) Where a person removed from the Specialist Register by virtue of paragraph (3)—
(a)is no longer suspended from the register of dentists (kept under section 14 of the Dentists Act 1984 (the dentists register and the registrar)), and has not had his name erased from that register; or
(b)once again becomes a registered dentist,
the Registrar shall, if requested to do so by that person and provided that person is also a registered medical practitioner, once again include that person’s name in the Specialist Register and shall send him notice of having done so.
(5) Where the GMC is satisfied that any entry in the General Practitioner Register or the Specialist Register has been fraudulently procured or incorrectly made it may direct that the entry shall be removed from that Register, and paragraph (6) shall apply.
(6) A decision taken by the GMC pursuant to paragraph (5) shall be treated as an appealable registration decision under Schedule 3A to the Medical Act (registration appeals); and the procedure in that Schedule shall accordingly apply.
(7) Paragraph 6 of Schedule 3A to the Medical Act (notices) shall apply to notices required by this article to be sent to any person by the Registrar of the GMC as it applies to the notifications referred to in that paragraph.
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