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Revised Statute from The UK Statute Law Database

Medical Act 1983 (c. 54)

This version of this statute is extracted from the UK Statute Law Database (SLD). It is not necessarily in the form in which it was originally enacted but is a revised version, which means that any subsequent amendments to the text and other effects are incorporated with annotations.

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Medical Act 1983

1983 CHAPTER 54

Contents

Go to Preamble

  1. Part I

    Preliminary

    1. The General Medical Council

      1. 1. The General Medical Council

      2. 2. Registration of medical practitioners

  2. Part II

    Medical Education and Registration: Persons Qualifying in the United Kingdom and Elsewhere in the EEC

    1. 3. Registration by virtue of primary United Kingdom or primary European qualifications

    2. 4. Qualifying examinations and primary United Kingdom qualifications

    3. 5. General functions of the Education Committee in relation to medical education in the United Kingdom

    4. 6. Further powers of the Education Committee

    5. 7. Power to appoint visitors of medical schools

    6. 8. Power to add further qualifying examinations

    7. 9. Powers of Privy Council where standards not maintained

    8. 10. Experience required for full registration by virtue of primary United Kingdom qualifications

    9. 11. Provisions supplementary to s. 10, etc (E+W+S)

    10. 11. Provisions supplementary to s. 10, etc (N.I.)

    11. 12. Special provisions as to employment in health centres

    12. 13. Power to appoint visitors of approved hospitals

    13. 14. Alternative requirements as to experience in certain cases

    14. 15. Provisional registration

    15. 15A.Provisional registration for EEA nationals

    16. 16. Registration of qualifications

    17. 17. Primary qualifications obtained in other EEA States

    18. 18. Visiting EEC practitioners

  3. Part III

    Registration of Persons Qualifying Overseas

    1. 19. Full registration of EEA nationals etc. by virtue of overseas primary qualifications etc

    2. 20. Experience required for full registration by virtue of recognised overseas qualifications

    3. 21. Provisional registration

    4. 21A. Full registration for eligible specialists and qualified general practitioners

    5. 22. Limited registration of persons by virtue of overseas qualifications

    6. 23. Limited registration: supplementary provisions

    7. 24. Limited registration: erasure

    8. 25. Full registration of persons with limited registration

    9. 26. Registration of qualifications

    10. 27. Temporary full registration for visiting overseas specialists

    11. 28. The Review Board for Overseas Qualified Practitioners

    12. 29. Functions of the Review Board

  4. [F1PART IIIA

    LICENCE TO PRACTISE AND REVALIDATION

    1. Duty of General Council to make regulations

      1. 29A. Regulations as to licence to practise and revalidation

    2. Grant, refusal and withdrawal of licence

      1. 29B. Grant, refusal and withdrawal of licence

      2. 29C. Referral to the Investigation Committee

    3. Restoration of licence

      1. 29D. Restoration of licence

    4. Supplementary provisions

      1. 29E. Evidence

      2. 29F. Appeals

      3. 29G. Guidance

      4. 29H. Notices

      5. 29J. Miscellaneous

  5. Part IV

    General Provisions Concerning Registration

    1. 30. The registers

    2. 31. Power to make regulations with respect to the registers

    3. 31A. Voluntary removal from the register

    4. 32. Registration fees

    5. 33. Supplementary provisions about registration

    6. 34. The Register

    7. 34A. Proof of registration

    8. 34B. Registration appeals

  6. [F1PART V

    Fitness to Practise and Medical Ethics

    1. 35. General Council’s power to advise on conduct, performance or ethics

    2. 35A. General Council’s power to require disclosure of information

    3. 35B. Notification and disclosure by the General Council

    4. 35C. Functions of the Investigation Committee

    5. 35CC. Provisions supplementary to section 35C

    6. 35D. Functions of a Fitness to Practise Panel

    7. 35E. Provisions supplementary to section 35D

    8. 38. Power to order immediate suspension etc. after a finding of impairment of fitness to practise

    9. 39. Fraud or error in relation to registration

    10. 40. Appeals

    11. 41. Restoration of names to the register

    12. 41A. Interim Orders

    13. 41C. Effect of directions or orders on a licence to practise

    14. 43. Proceedings before the Investigation Committee, Interim Orders Panels and Fitness to Practise Panels

    15. 44. Effect of disqualification in another member State on registration in the United Kingdom

    16. 44A. Effect of disqualification or conviction on registration

    17. 45. Disciplinary provisions affecting practitioners who render services while visiting the United Kingdom

  7. Part VI

    Privileges of Registered Practitioners

    1. 46. Recovery of fees

    2. 47.Appointments not to be held except by fully registered medical practitioners who hold licences to practise

    3. 48.Certificates invalid if not signed by fully registered medical practitioners who hold licences to practise

    4. 49. Penalty for pretending to be registered

    5. 49A. Penalty for pretending to hold a licence to practise

  8. Part VII

    Miscellaneous and General

    1. 50. Default powers of Privy Council

    2. 51. Exercise of powers to make Orders in Council and other orders

    3. 52. Exercise of powers of Privy Council

    4. 52A. Annual reports

    5. 53. Proof of certain instruments

    6. 54. Saving for certain occupations

    7. 55. Interpretation

    8. 56. Consequential amendments, repeals, transitional provisions and savings

    9. 57. Short title, commencement and extent

  9. SCHEDULE 1

    The General Medical Council and its Committees, and the Branch Councils

  10. SCHEDULE 2

    Primary European Qualifications

  11. SCHEDULE 3

    Registration: Supplementary Provisions

  12. SCHEDULE 3A

    REGISTRATION APPEALS

  13. SCHEDULE 3B

    LICENCE TO PRACTISE AND REVALIDATION: APPEALS

  14. SCHEDULE 4

    PROCEEDINGS BEFORE THE INVESTIGATION COMMITTEE, INTERIM ORDERS PANELS AND FITNESS TO PRACTISE PANELS

  15. SCHEDULE 5

    Consequential Amendments of Enactments

  16. SCHEDULE 6

    Transitional and Saving Provisions

  17. SCHEDULE 7

An Act to consolidate the Medical Acts 1956 to 1978 and certain related provisions, with amendments to give effect to recommendations of the Law Commission and the Scottish Law Commission.

[26th July 1983]

Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

Annotations:

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1Act: power to modify conferred (15.3.2000) by 1999 c. 8, s. 60(1)(2)(a)(4), Sch. 3; S.I. 2000/779, art. 2(1)

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