Statutory Instruments
2010 No. 477
Health Care And Associated Professions
Doctors
The General Medical Council (Marking of the General Practitioner Register) Regulations Order of Council 2010
Made
24th February 2010
Coming info force
1st April 2010
At the Council Chamber, Whitehall, the 24th day of February 2010
By the Lords of Her Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council
The General Medical Council have made the General Medical Council (Marking of the General Practitioner Register) Regulations 2010, which are set out in the Schedule to this Order, in exercise of the power conferred by section 31(4B) of the Medical Act 1983(1).
By virtue of section 31(10) of that Act(2), such Regulations shall not come into force until approved by Order of the Privy Council.
Their Lordships, having taken these Regulations into consideration, are pleased to and do approve them.
This Order may be cited as the General Medical Council (Marking of the General Practitioner Register) Regulations Order of Council 2010 and comes into force on 1st April 2010.
Judith Simpson
Clerk of the Privy Council
SCHEDULEThe General Medical Council (Marking of the General Practitioner Register) Regulations 2010
The General Medical Council make the following Regulations in exercise of the power conferred by section 31(4B) of the Medical Act 1983.
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the General Medical Council (Marking of the General Practitioner Register) Regulations 2010 and come into force on 1st April 2010.
Marking of the General Practitioner Register in relation to persons who have acquired the right to practise as a general practitioner
2.—(1) Paragraph (2) applies where the name of a registered medical practitioner has been included in the General Practitioner Register on the basis that they have an acquired right to practise as a general practitioner in the United Kingdom in accordance with section 34C(2)(b) of the Medical Act 1983(3).
(2) The entry in the General Practitioner Register relating to a practitioner referred to in paragraph (1) must be marked by the Registrar in order to show the category of persons referred to in article 6 of the Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Order of Council 2010(4) within which that practitioner falls.
Given under the official seal of the General Medical Council this day 11th of February 2010
Peter Rubin
Chair
Niall Dickson
Chief Executive and Registrar
EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Order)
The Regulations approved by this Order are made by virtue of provisions in the Medical Act 1983 (c.54) which were inserted by the General and Specialist Medical Practice (Education, Training and Qualifications) Order 2010 (S.I.2010/234). That Order abolished the Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Board (“the Board”), transferred the Board’s functions to the General Medical Council and revoked the General and Specialist Medical Practice (Education, Training and Qualifications) Order 2003 (S.I.2003/1250)(“the 2003 Order”) under which functions relating to postgraduate medical education and training were carried out.
These Regulations make provision for the marking of the General Practitioner Register so as to distinguish between different categories of persons who are eligible to be registered in that register by virtue of having acquired a right to practise as a general practitioner in the United Kingdom pursuant to article 6 of the Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Order of Council 2010 (S.I.2010/473). Both article 6 of that Order and the provision made in these Regulations relate to functions previously carried out under the 2003 Order.
1983 c.54. Section 31(4B) is inserted by S.I.2010/234 .
Section 31(10) is amended by S.I.2006/1914 and 2010/ 234.
Section 34C is inserted by S.I.2010/ 234.