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The Medical Profession (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2008

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PART 1Transfer of medical education functions to the General Medical Council

Amendment of section 1

1.  In section 1(1) (the General Medical Council)—

(a)in subsection (3), omit paragraph (a); and

(b)in subsection (3A), for “paragraphs (a), (c), (d) and (e)” substitute “paragraphs (c), (d) and (e)”.

Amendment of section 10A

2.—(1) Amend section 10A(2) (programmes for provisionally registered doctors) as follows.

(2) In subsection (1), for “the Education Committee” substitute “the General Council”.

(3) In subsection (2)—

(a)for “the Education Committee” substitute “the General Council”; and

(b)in paragraph (a), omit the words “, subject to any provision made in an order under subsection (3)”.

(4) Omit subsection (3).

(5) In subsection (4), for “the Education Committee” substitute “the General Council”.

(6) Omit subsection (6).

(7) In subsection (7), for “the Education Committee” (in both places) substitute “the General Council”.

(8) In subsection (8), for “the Education Committee” substitute “the General Council”.

Amendment of section 50

3.—(1) Amend section 50(3) (default powers of the Privy Council) as follows.

(2) In subsection (1)—

(a)in paragraph (a), for “the Education Committee” substitute “the General Council”;

(b)in paragraph (b), for “the General Council or the Education Committee” substitute “the General Council”; and

(c)in the words following paragraph (b) omit “or that Committee as the case requires”.

(3) Omit subsection (3).

Amendment of section 51

4.  In section 51(4) (exercise of powers to make Orders in Council and other orders), in subsection (3)(b), omit “10A(3) or”.

Amendment of Schedule 1

5.—(1) Amend Schedule 1(5) as follows.

(2) In paragraph 15(3), omit “other than the Education Committee”.

(3) Omit paragraph 19 (composition of the Education Committee) and the heading immediately before it.

(4) In paragraph 25(3), omit the words from “but the determination of the remuneration” to the end.

Repeal of paragraph 14 of Schedule 6

6.  Omit paragraph 14 of Schedule 6 (transitional and saving provisions).

Substitution of references to the Education Committee

7.—(1) This paragraph applies to any provision of the 1983 Act (apart from those amended by paragraphs 1 to 6) which contains a reference to “the Education Committee”, and including the heading to any section of that Act.

(2) For each reference to “the Education Committee” substitute “the General Council”.

(3) Where the provision also contains a reference to the Education Committee as “the Committee”, for the words “the Committee” substitute “the General Council”.

(1)

Section 1(3) and (3A) of the Medical Act 1983 (c.54) are as substituted by S.I. 2002/3135 and amended by paragraph 2 of Schedule 7 to the Health and Social Care Act 2008. Subsection (3) was also amended by S.I. 2006/1914.

(2)

Section 10A was inserted by S.I. 2006/1914 and amended by S.I. 2007/3101.

(3)

Section 50 was amended by S.I. 2002/3135 and 2006/1914.

(4)

Section 51(3) was substituted by S.I. 2006/1914 and amended by S.I. 2008/1774.

(5)

Paragraph 15(3) was amended by S.I. 2006/1914 and 2008/1774. Paragraph 19 is as substituted by S.I. 2002/3135. Paragraph 25(3) was amended by S.I. 2006/1914.

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