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Medical Practitioners Act 1995

III: Registration
Register of Medical Practitioners
46   Removal of qualifications or overseas registration



   46. Removal of qualifications or overseas registration---(1) If the
 Council is satisfied that---
   (a) Any university or other educational establishment, having granted
         to a medical practitioner a qualification that may be entered in
         the register, has lawfully cancelled or suspended the
         qualification; or
   (b) Any overseas registering authority that maintains a register of
         persons who practise medicine---
           (i) Has removed the name of a medical practitioner from that
         register; or
           (ii) Has suspended a medical practitioner's registration,---
 the Council may review the registration of that medical practitioner.

   (2) The form of any review under this section shall be at the
 Council's discretion, but in every case the Council shall give to the
 medical practitioner whose registration is under review,---
   (a) A notice containing such particulars as will clearly inform that
         practitioner of the substance of the grounds on which the
         Council has decided to carry out the review; and
   (b) Subject to section 134 of this Act, any information in the
         possession of the Council relating to the cancellation or
         suspension of a qualification, or removal or suspension of any
         overseas registration, held by that practitioner; and
   (c) A reasonable opportunity to make written submissions and be heard
         on the matter, either personally or by his or her
         representative.

   (3) After a review under this section, the Council may, if it thinks
 it appropriate to do so,---
   (a) Order the Registrar to make a note in the register of the fact of
         cancellation or suspension of the qualification, or removal or
         suspension of the overseas registration; or
   (b) Order that the practitioner's registration be suspended for such
         period as the Council thinks fit; or
   (c) Order that the practitioner's name be removed from the register.


   (4) The Registrar shall ensure that a copy of any order made under
 subsection (3) of this section is given to the medical practitioner in
 respect of whom it is made.
     Cf. 1968, No. 46, ss. 30, 58A; 1983, No. 40, s. 9; 1988, No. 150, s.
       61 (4)
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