Medical Practitioners Act 1995

   56. Council may make rules prescribing when annual practising
 certificates in force--- (1) Subject to subsection (2) of this section,
 the Council may, from time to time, make rules---
   (a) Prescribing, for the purposes of section 55 of this Act, when
         annual practising certificates shall be in force, including
         (without limitation)---
           (i) Provision for annual practising certificates issued to
         different medical practitioners or different classes of medical
         practitioners to expire on different dates:
           (ii) Provision for determining the dates on which annual
         practising certificates are to expire, including (without
         limitation) provision for such dates to be determined by random
         selection:
           (iii) Provision for the transition between different systems
         for determining when annual practising certificates shall be in
         force (including the system set out in section 55 (1) (a) of
         this Act).

   (2) Rules made under this section shall give effect to the general
 principle that annual practising certificates shall be in force for 1
 year, but such rules may provide that such certificates are to have
 effect for a shorter or a longer period in any of the following cases:
   (a) When an annual practising certificate is first issued to a medical
         practitioner:
   (b) When an annual practising certificate is issued to a medical
         practitioner after a period during which that medical
         practitioner has not held such a certificate:
   (c) In order to provide for the transition between different systems
         for determining when annual practising certificates shall be in
         force.

   (3) No rules made under this section shall have any force or effect
 until a copy of the rules has been published in the Gazette.

   (4) The publication in the Gazette of a copy of any rules purporting
 to have been made under this section by the Council shall be sufficient
 evidence, in the absence of proof to the contrary, that the rules have
 been duly made.

   (5) The Council may, from time to time, amend or revoke any rules made
 under this section, and the provisions of subsections (3) and (4) of
 this section, with all necessary modifications, shall apply in respect
 of any such amendment or revocation.

   (6) The Council shall take such steps as it considers reasonably
 necessary to ensure that all rules made under this section are brought
 to the attention of those persons to whom the rules apply.