Transitory provisions relating to the General Medical Council (Professional Performance) Rules 19974.

On and after the coming into force of article 4(2) of the principal Order (which relates to the reduction in the membership of the General Medical Council to no more than 35 members) and until the transitional provisions set out in Schedule 2 to the principal Order that require cases to be dealt with under the General Medical Council (Professional Performance) Rules 19974 are spent, those Rules are modified as follows—

(a)

in rule 2(1), for the definitions of “lay advisor”, “lay person” and “lay screener” substitute, respectively, the following definitions—

“lay adviser” means a lay person appointed by the Council in accordance with rule 3(3)(c);”;

“lay person” means a person who is neither fully registered nor a holder of any qualification registrable under the Act;”; and

“lay screener” means a lay person appointed by the Council in accordance with rule 3(3)(b);”; and

(a)

in rule 3—

  1. (i)

    in paragraph (1), for the words “a member of the Council” substitute the words “a doctor”,

  2. (ii)

    omit paragraph (2), and

  3. (iii)
    in paragraph (3), for sub-paragraphs (a) and (b) substitute—

    “(a)

    a list of doctors appointed in accordance with paragraph (1);

    (b)

    a list of lay screeners appointed by the Council for the purposes of rule 5(6), (7) and (8) and rule 6(8); and

    (c)

    a list of lay advisers appointed by the Council for the purposes of rule 17(6), (7) (8) and (9) and rule 26(2).”.