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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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