{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medical-act-1983/section-30",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medical-act-1983/section-30.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1983/54",
  "legislation_title": "Medical Act 1983",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medical-act-1983",
  "path": "section/30",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "30",
  "heading": "The registers.",
  "text": "(A1) In this Part, “the registers” means—\n(a) the register;\n(b) the General Practitioner Register; and\n(c) the Specialist Register.\n(1) The register of medical practitioners shall include—\n(a) in the principal list the names of persons entitled to be registered under section 3, 14A, 15, 15A or 19A above, or directed to be registered under section 19, 21, 21B or 21C above;\n(aa) in the emergency powers doctors list, the names of persons from time to time registered under section 18A; and\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(c) in the visiting overseas doctors list the names of persons from time to time directed to be registered under section 27A or 27B above; ...\n(d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) The register shall also include, in respect of each of the persons entered in it, a statement of the following—\n(a) the person’s address;\n(b) the person’s date of registration;\n(c) whether the person holds a licence to practise or not;\n(d) any qualifications which the person is entitled to have registered under section 16 or 26 above; and\n(e) any other particulars prescribed in the case of a person entered in the register.\n(4) It shall be the duty of the Registrar to keep the register, the General Practitioner Register and the Specialist Register correct in accordance with the provisions of this Act and regulations made by the General Council, to erase the names of persons who have died, or who have been provisionally registered for longer than the period prescribed in respect of them, and from time to time to make the necessary alterations in the addresses, qualifications and other registered particulars of registered persons.\n(5) The Registrar may, by letter addressed to any person registered in the register at his address on the register, inquire whether he has changed his address and, if no answer is received to the inquiry within six months from the posting of the letter, may erase from the register the entry relating to that person.\n(6) On registering the death of a person registered in the register, a registrar of births and deaths shall, without charge to the Registrar, send forthwith by post to the Registrar a copy certified under his hand of the entry in the register of deaths relating to the death.\n(7) In this section “prescribed” means prescribed by regulations made under section 31 below.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 30(A1) 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. 4(a); S.I. 2010/478, art. 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in s. 30(1) substituted (17.12.2002) by The Medical Act 1983 (Amendment) Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/3135), arts. 1(2)(e), 7(2)(a)(i) (with transitional provisions in Sch. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 30(1)(a)(b) substituted (4.12.2000) by S.I. 2000/3041, reg. 4(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 30(1)(a) substituted (3.12.2007) by The European Qualifications (Health and Social Care Professions) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/3101), regs. 1(2), 19(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 30(1)(a) substituted (17.12.2002) by The Medical Act 1983 (Amendment) Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/3135), arts. 1(2)(e), 7(2)(a)(ii) (with transitional provisions in Sch. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 30(1)(a) substituted (19.7.2006 for specified purposes, 19.10.2007 in so far as not already in force as notified in the London Gazette dated 20.7.2007) by The Medical Act 1983 (Amendment) and Miscellaneous Amendments Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/1914), arts. 1(2)(b)(c)(3), 38(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "S. 30(1)(aa) inserted (9.7.2008) by The Health Care and Associated Professions (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/1774), art. 1(2)(b), Sch. 1 para. 11"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Word in s. 30(1) inserted (31.12.2020) by The European Qualifications (Health and Social Care Professions) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/593), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 17(a) (with reg. 12A, Sch. 1 Pt. 2) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1394, regs. 4, 9); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "S. 30(1)(b) omitted (1.7.2003 as notified in the London Gazette dated 1.7.2003) by virtue of The Medical Act 1983 (Amendment) Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/3135), arts. 1(2)(3), 7(2)(a)(iii) (with Sch. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Words in s. 30(1)(c) substituted (19.7.2006 for specified purposes, 19.10.2007 in so far as not already in force as notified in the London Gazette dated 20.7.2007) by The Medical Act 1983 (Amendment) and Miscellaneous Amendments Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/1914), arts. 1(2)(b)(c)(3), 38(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "S. 30(1)(d) and preceding word omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The European Qualifications (Health and Social Care Professions) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/593), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 17(b) (with reg. 12A, Sch. 1 Pt. 2) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1394, regs. 4, 9); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F12",
      "text": "S. 30(2) omitted (19.7.2006 for specified purposes, 19.10.2007 in so far as not already in force as notified in the London Gazette dated 20.7.2007) by virtue of The Medical Act 1983 (Amendment) and Miscellaneous Amendments Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/1914), arts. 1(2)(b)(c)(3), 8(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F13",
      "text": "S. 30(3) substituted (16.11.2009 as notified in the London Gazette dated 21.8.2009) by The Medical Act 1983 (Amendment) Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/3135), arts. 1(2)(3), 12(1) (with Sch. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F14",
      "text": "Words in s. 30(3) substituted (19.7.2006 for specified purposes, 16.11.2009 as notified in the London Gazette dated 21.8.2009) by The Medical Act 1983 (Amendment) and Miscellaneous Amendments Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/1914), arts. 1(2)(b)(c)(3), 8(b)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F15",
      "text": "Words in s. 30(3)(e) substituted (19.7.2006, 16.11.2009 in so far as not already in force as notified in the London Gazette dated 21.8.2009) by The Medical Act 1983 (Amendment) and Miscellaneous Amendments Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/1914), arts. 1(2)(b)(c)(3), 8(b)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F16",
      "text": "Words in s. 30(3)(e) substituted (19.7.2006 for specified purposes, 16.11.2009 in so far as not already in force as notified in the London Gazette dated 21.8.2009) by The Medical Act 1983 (Amendment) and Miscellaneous Amendments Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/1914), arts. 1(2)(b)(c)(3), 8(b)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F17",
      "text": "Words in s. 30(4) substituted (19.7.2006 for specified purposes, 19.10.2007 in so far as not already in force as notified in the London Gazette dated 20.7.2007) by The Medical Act 1983 (Amendment) and Miscellaneous Amendments Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/1914), arts. 1(2)(b)(c)(3), 8(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F18",
      "text": "Words in s. 30(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. 4(b); S.I. 2010/478, art. 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F19",
      "text": "Words in s. 30(4) inserted (19.7.2006 for specified purposes, 1.8.2007 in so far as not already in force as notified in the London Gazette dated 20.7.2007) by The Medical Act 1983 (Amendment) and Miscellaneous Amendments Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/1914), arts. 1(2)(b)(c)(3), 29"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F20",
      "text": "Words in s. 30(5) substituted (19.7.2006 for specified purposes, 19.10.2007 in so far as not already in force as notified in the London Gazette dated 20.7.2007) by The Medical Act 1983 (Amendment) and Miscellaneous Amendments Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/1914), arts. 1(2)(b)(c)(3), 8(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F21",
      "text": "Words in s. 30(6) substituted (19.7.2006 for specified purposes, 19.10.2007 in so far as not already in force as notified in the London Gazette dated 20.7.2007) by The Medical Act 1983 (Amendment) and Miscellaneous Amendments Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/1914), arts. 1(2)(b)(c)(3), 8(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 30(3) modified (temp.) (19.10.2007) by The Medical Act 1983 Amendments (Further Transitional Provisions) Order of Council 2007 (S.I. 2007/2796), arts. 1(1), 2"
    }
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    "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."
}