Paragraph 2 Amendment of the General Medical Council (Professional Performance) Rules 1997

The General Medical Council (Professional Performance) Rules 1997^f1 shall be amended as follows.

The following rule shall be substituted for rule 6(1)—

• “An assessment may be carried out otherwise than in accordance with a direction at this stage in the consideration of a case for the purposes of paragraph 5A(1)(b) of Schedule 4 to the Act where either the medical screener is of the opinion that an assessment needs to be carried out, or the case is one to which rule 5(8) applies.”.