Explanatory note

This Order sets out the functions of legal assessors appointed in proceedings of the following committees of the General Medical Council: the Investigation Committee; an Interim Orders Panel or a Fitness to Practise Panel. It also provides for legal assessors to attend certain meetings and hearings of these committees, and it contains measures relating to the tendering of advice by them at such meetings or hearings. It also makes provision for the recording of advice given by a legal assessor where that that advice is not accepted by a committee or panel together with the decision not to accept the advice and the reasons for that decision.