Statutory Instruments
MEDICAL PROFESSION
Made
13th April 1989
Laid before Parliament
17th April 1989
Coming into force
10th May 1989
At the Council Chamber, Whitehall, the 13th day of April 1989
By the Lords of Her Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council
Whereas in pursuance of paragraphs 1 and 5 of Schedule 4 to the Medical Act 1983(1) the General Medical Council, on 3rd November 1988, made the General Medical Council Preliminary Proceedings Committee and Professional Conduct Committee (Procedure) Rules 1988 after consulting with such bodies of persons representing medical practitioners as appeared to the General Medical Council to be requisite, in accordance with paragraph 1(4) of that Schedule(2):
And whereas by the General Medical Council Preliminary Proceedings Committee and Professional Conduct Committee (Procedure) Rules Order of Council 1988(3) made on 21st December 1988 the Lords of the Privy Council, in pursuance of sub-paragraph (5) of the said paragraph (1), approved the said Rules as set out in the Appendix to that Order:
And whereas Their Lordships' approval given in the aforesaid Order of 21st December 1988 did not extend to the paragraph (2) of Rule 4 of the Rules duly made by the General Medical Council on 3rd November 1988, after such consultation as aforesaid, and set out in the Appendix to this Order:
Now, therefore, Their Lordships, in further exercise of their powers under the said sub-paragraph (5) of paragraph 1 of Schedule 4 to the said Act, are pleased to approve that paragraph.
This Order shall come into force on 10th May 1989.
G.I. de Deney
Clerk of the Privy Council
“(2) Subject to paragraph (3), the Council shall appoint the President under this rule.”
(This note is not part of the Order)
The paragraph approved by this Order was inadvertently omitted from the version of the rules submitted by the General Medical Council to the Privy Council for approval and which was approved by the Privy Council by the General Medical Council Preliminary Proceedings Committee and Professional Conduct Committee (Procedure) Rules Order of Council 1988 (S.I. 1988/2255).
Paragraphs 1(4) and (5) of Schedule 4 apply to rules made under paragraph 5 of that Schedule by virtue of paragraph 5(3).
S.I. 1988/2255.