Article 2 Amendment to section 2 of the Act

(1)

Section 2 of the Act (registration of medical practitioners)^f1 is amended in accordance with this article.

(2)

After subsection (3) insert—

“(4)
Section 35C(2)(da) (the necessary knowledge of English) shall not apply in determining whether a person’s fitness to practise is impaired for the purposes of registration under this Act.”.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: Section 2 has been amended by S.I. 2002/3135 (commencement as notified in the London Gazette dated July 1, 2003); S.I. 2006/1914 (commencement as notified in the London Gazette dated July 19, 2006 and July 20, 2007); S.I. 2007/3101 and S.I. 2008/1774.