{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-medical-council-constitution-amendment-order-2007/article-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-medical-council-constitution-amendment-order-2007/article-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2007/616",
  "legislation_title": "The General Medical Council (Constitution) (Amendment) Order 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-medical-council-constitution-amendment-order-2007",
  "path": "article/7",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Substitution of article 8 of the principal Order",
  "text": "For article 8 of the principal Order substitute the following—\n“Quorum\n8. (1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), the quorum of the General Council shall be 25.\n(2) Where, as a consequence of a vacancy not needing to be filled, the full membership of the General Council is less than 35, the quorum of the General Council shall, subject to paragraph (3), be 70% of the full membership of the General Council.\n(3) If a calculation of 70% of the full membership of the General Council produces a number which is—\n(a) not a whole number, the number produced shall be rounded up to the nearest whole number, and that whole number shall, subject to sub-paragraph (b), be the quorum of the General Council; or\n(b) less than 10, the quorum of the General Council shall be 10.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/616/article/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:59:46.588226+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}