Previous - Contents - Next

Medical Practitioners Act 1995

III: Registration
Register of Medical Practitioners
37   Register



                    Register of Medical Practitioners

   37. Register---(1) The Council shall maintain 1 or more registers of
 medical practitioners, and shall make provision as part of the register,
 or maintain separate registers, in respect of the following:
   (a) Persons holding probationary registration:
   (b) Persons holding general registration:
   (c) Persons holding vocational registration, grouped according to the
         branch or sub-branch of medicine to which the registration
         relates:
   (d) Persons holding temporary registration:
   (e) Persons holding interim registration, grouped according to the
         registration applied for:
   (f) Persons holding current annual practising certificates:
   (g) Persons holding interim practising certificates.

   (2) The Registrar shall enter the following information in the
 register in respect of each medical practitioner:
   (a) The type of registration held:
   (b) The name of the practitioner:
   (c) Either---
           (i) The practitioner's residential address; or
           (ii) The practitioner's professional address,---
           whichever the practitioner prefers:
   (d) Particulars of the qualifications by virtue of which the
         practitioner is registered, and any additional qualifications
         authorised for inclusion in the register by section 39 of this
         Act:
   (e) The date of the practitioner's registration:
   (f) Particulars of annual practising certificates or interim
         practising certificates issued in respect of the practitioner:
   (g) Any current conditions of registration, or of a practising
         certificate, imposed under this Act:
   (h) If the practitioner's registration or practising certificate is
         suspended under this Act, the fact of that suspension, and any
         current conditions relating to the suspension:
   (i) Any note under section 46 (3) (a) of this Act:
   (j) Such other particulars as the Council considers appropriate.

   (3) The Registrar shall from time to time make such amendments to the
 register as are necessary to reflect any changes in the information
 referred to in subsection (2) of this section.

   (4) The register may be kept in such manner as the Registrar thinks
 fit, including, either wholly or partly, by means of a device or
 facility---
   (a) That records or stores information electronically or by other
         means; and
   (b) That permits the information so recorded to be readily inspected
         or reproduced in usable form.
     Cf. 1968, No. 46, s. 24 (1); 1979, No. 53, s. 9
Previous - Contents - Next