{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medical-act-1983/schedule-3A/paragraph-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medical-act-1983/schedule-3A/paragraph-3.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1983/54",
  "legislation_title": "Medical Act 1983",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medical-act-1983",
  "path": "schedule/3A/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Notice of appealable registration decisions",
  "text": "(1) Where an appealable registration decision is made, the person making the decision shall give the person concerned notice of—\n(a) the decision;\n(b) the reasons for the decision; and\n(c) the person’s right to appeal under paragraph 4 below.\n(2) Failure to notify an applicant of a decision made in respect of an application for registration under section 3, 14A, 15, 15A, 19, 19A or 21 of this Act within the requisite period shall be treated as a decision from which the applicant may appeal under paragraph 4 below.\n(2A) Failure to notify an applicant of a decision in respect of an application for registration under section 21B of this Act (full registration of persons with an overseas qualification) within the requisite period shall, where a specified state professional makes the application, be treated as a decision from which the applicant may appeal under paragraph 4 below.\n(3) Failure to notify an applicant of a decision made in respect of an application for inclusion in the General Practitioner Register or the Specialist Register within the requisite period shall, in cases prescribed by the General Council in rules, be treated as a decision from which the applicant may appeal under paragraph 4.\n(4) Rules under sub-paragraph (3) shall not come into force until approved by order of the Privy Council.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 3A inserted (1.4.2005 as notified in the London Gazette dated 14.1.2005) by The Medical Act 1983 (Amendment) Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/3135), arts. 1(2)(3), 8(2) (with Sch. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 3A para. 3(2) substituted (3.12.2007) by The European Qualifications (Health and Social Care Professions) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/3101), regs. 1(2), 34(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Sch. 3A para. 3(2A) inserted (1.12.2023) by The Recognition of Professional Qualifications and Implementation of International Recognition Agreements (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1286), reg. 1, Sch. 3 para. 17(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Sch. 3A para. 3(3)(4) inserted (11.2.2010 for specified purposes, 1.4.2010 in so far as not already in force) by The General and Specialist Medical Practice (Education, Training and Qualifications) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/234), art. 1(3)(4), Sch. 1 para. 17(6); S.I. 2010/478, art. 2(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2008/14",
      "affecting_title": "Health and Social Care Act 2008"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1983/54/schedule/3A/paragraph/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:04:57.676542+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."
}