Article 14 Removal and suspension from specialist register
Where it comes to the notice of the Registrar of the GMC that a person (other than one to whom paragraph (4) applies) whose name is included in the specialist register no longer satisfies the requirements of article 8(3)(b) or 12(1)(a), the Registrar shall remove that person’s name from the specialist register and shall send him notice of having done so.
Where it comes to the notice of the Registrar of the GMC that a person removed from the specialist register under paragraph (1) has become once again a person who satisfies the requirements of article 8(3)(b) or 12(1)(a), the Registrar shall once again include that person’s name in the specialist register and shall send him notice of having done so.
Where the Registration Committee of the GMCf1 is satisfied that any entry in the specialist register has been fraudulently procured or incorrectly made it may direct that the entry shall be removed from the register; and Schedule 6 shall apply in relation to proceedings in any such case.
Where it comes to the notice of the Registrar of the GMC—
that a person’s registration in the register of medical practitioners or the register of medical practitioners with limited registration (both kept under section 30 of the Medical Act 1983f2) is suspended under any provision of that Act; or
in the case of an oral and maxillo-facial surgeon, that his registration in the register of dentists (kept under section 14 of the Dentists Act 1984f3) is suspended under any provision of that Act,
the Registrar shall remove that person’s name from the specialist register and shall send him notice of having done so.
Where it comes to the notice of the Registrar of the GMC that the registration (as referred to in paragraph (4)(a) or (b)) of a person whose name has been removed from the specialist register under paragraph (4) is no longer subject to suspension, the Registrar shall once again include that person’s name in the specialist register unless his name has been erased from the relevant register referred to in paragraph (4)(a) or (b), and shall send him notice of having done so.
Paragraph 8 of Schedule 4 to the Medical Act 1983 (service of notifications of decisions) shall apply to notices required by this article, or by or by virtue of Schedule 6, to be sent to any person by the Registrar of the GMC as it applies to the notifications referred to in that paragraph.
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Footnotes
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This committee is established by the GMC by virtue of paragraph 25 of Schedule 1 to the Medical Act 1983 (c. 54); see, in particular, Standing Orders 11 and 30—33 of Chapter VI of the GMC’s Standing Orders, June 1994. Functions concerning fraud or error in relation to registration under the Medical Act 1983 were conferred on the Registration Committee by rules approved by S.I. 1980/860, which have effect by virtue of paragraph 6 of Schedule 4 to that Act.
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