The General Medical Council (Constitution of Fitness to Practise Committees) (Amendment No. 2) Rules Order of Council 1994

Made: 12th December 1994

Laid before Parliament: 13th December 1994

Coming into force: 3rd January 1995

At the Council Chamber, Whitehall, the 12th day of December 1994 By the Lords of Her Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council

Now, therefore, Their Lordships, having taken the said rules into consideration, are hereby pleased to approve the same.

This Order may be cited as the General Medical Council (Constitution of Fitness to Practise Committees) (Amendment No. 2) Rules Order of Council 1994, and shall come into force on 3rd January 1995.

SCHEDULE — THE GENERAL MEDICAL COUNCIL (CONSTITUTION OF FITNESS TO PRACTISE COMMITTEES) (AMENDMENT NO. 2) RULES 1994

The General Medical Council, in exercise of their powers under paragraphs 20, 21 and 22 of Schedule 1 of the Medical Act 1983, hereby make the following rules:—

Citation, commencement and interpretation

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• (1) These rules may be cited as the General Medical Council (Constitution of Fitness to Practise Committees) (Amendment No. 2) Rules 1994, and shall come into force on 3rd January 1995.

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In these rules “the principal rules” mean the General Medical Council (Constitution of Fitness to Practice Committees) Rules 1986².

Amendment of the principal rules

Signed

R. P. Bulling — Deputy Clerk of the Privy Council

Explanatory note

(This not is not part of the Order)

The rules approved by this Order amend rules governing the constitution of the General Medical Council’s Fitness to Practise Committees. The amendment permits the President of the Council to make temporary appointments of medical members to the Committees.

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