Medical Act 1983

24Limited registration: erasure

(1)The General Council may, on an application being made to them containing such particulars as they may require by a person who is registered with limited registration, direct that his name shall be erased from the register on his own application on such day as they may specify in the direction; but the fact that a person's name has been erased under this subsection shall be disregarded by the Council in deciding whether or not to grant limited registration for a further period to that person.

(2)If it appears to the General Council, having regard to his performance in a relevant employment, that a person registered under section 22 above does not in fact possess the appropriate knowledge and skill, the Council may, subject to subsection (4) below, if they think fit, direct that his name shall be erased from the register.

(3)In subsection (2) above, in relation to a person registered under section 22 above—

(a)" a relevant employment" means a particular employment or an employment of a description for the purposes of which he is or has been so registered; and

(b)" the appropriate knowledge and skill" means the knowledge and skill which was required in his case in pursuance of subsection (1)(e) of that section in connection with the application for registration under that section by virtue of which he is so registered.

(4)No person's name shall be erased from the register under subsection (2) above unless—

(a)the Registrar has served on him a notification of the grounds on which the Council are considering exercising their powers under that subsection; and

(b)the Council have afforded him an opportunity of making representations to them in the matter;

and paragraph 8 of Schedule 4 to this Act shall apply to a notification required to be served by this subsection as it applies to the notifications required to be served by the provisions mentioned in that paragraph.