Medical Act 1983

30The registers

(1)The register of medical practitioners shall contain—

(a)in the principal list the names of persons entitled to be registered under section 3 or 15 above, or directed to be registered under section 19 or 21 above, but not entitled to be included in the overseas list;

(b)in the overseas list the names of persons entitled to be registered under section 3 or 15 above, or directed to be registered under section 19 or 21 above, who by virtue of regulations under section 31 below are for the time being entitled to be included in that list by reason of residence overseas;

(c)in the visiting overseas doctors list the names of persons from time to time directed to be registered under section 27 above; and

(d)in the visiting EEC practitioners list the names of persons entitled to be registered from time to time under section 18 above.

(2)The register of medical practitioners with limited registration shall contain the names of persons granted limited registration under section 22 above.

(3)Each register shall also contain the addresses and dates of registration of the persons registered in it, such of their qualifications as they are entitled to have registered under section 16 or 26 above and such other particulars (if any) of those persons as may be prescribed for that register.

(4)It shall be the duty of the Registrar to keep the registers correct in accordance with the provisions of this Act and regulations made by the General Council, to erase the names of persons who have died, and from time to time to make the necessary alterations in the addresses, qualifications and other registered particulars of registered persons.

(5)The Registrar may, by letter addressed to any person registered in either register at his address on the register, inquire whether he has changed his address and, if no answer is received to the inquiry within six months from the posting of the letter, may erase from the register the entry relating to that person.

(6)On registering the death of a person registered in either register, a registrar of births and deaths shall, without charge to the Registrar, send forthwith by post to the Registrar a copy certified under his hand of the entry in the register of deaths relating to the death.

(7)In this section " prescribed " means prescribed by regulations made under section 31 below.