Introductory text

Whereas under section 8(1) of the Medical Act 1983^f1 if it appears to the Education Committee of the General Medical Council that the standard of proficiency required from candidates at examinations held or to be held by any university or combination of universities in the United Kingdom for the purpose of granting one or more primary United Kingdom qualifications does or will conform to the prescribed standard of proficiency, the Committee may represent to the Privy Council that it is expedient that those examinations should become qualifying examinations for the purposes of Part II of the Act:

And whereas under section 8(2) of the Medical Act 1983 Her Majesty may by Order in Council give effect to any representations made to the Privy Council under section 8(1) of the Act, and any such Order may make such amendments in section 4(2) of the Act as are necessary for giving effect to the Order:

And whereas representations have been made by the Education Committee that it is expedient that examinations held by the combination of the University of Leicester and the University of Warwick should become qualifying examinations for the purposes of Part II of that Act: