Paragraph 20 General Medical Council (Review Board for Overseas Qualified Practitioners Rules) Order of Council 1979

for rule 10 substitute—

“10

(1)

There shall be an oral hearing of the application if the applicant so requests in the application mentioned in rule 9(a) or if the Board considers that such a hearing is desirable.

(2)

Subject to paragraph (3), the hearing shall be in public if the applicant so requests or if the Board otherwise considers it appropriate but the Board may, if satisfied that it is in the interests of the applicant, exclude the public from being present during any part of the proceedings.

(3)

The Board may for the purpose of deliberation, at any time exclude the applicant, his representative, any representative of the Council or the public.”;

and

in rule 11—

“(i)

omit paragraph (a),

(ii)

in paragraph (b) omit “also”, and

(iii)

omit paragraph (f).”