{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medical-professional-performance-act-1995/schedule/paragraph-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medical-professional-performance-act-1995/schedule/paragraph-7.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1995/51",
  "legislation_title": "Medical (Professional Performance) Act 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medical-professional-performance-act-1995",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/7",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Section 38 (power to order immediate suspension after a finding of professional misconduct or unfitness to practise) shall be amended as follows.\n(2) In subsection (1)—\n(a) after the words “36(1) or (2)” there shall be inserted the word “ , 36A ”;\n(b) after the words “37(1) or (2) above” there shall be inserted the words “ , or under rules made by virtue of paragraph 5A(3) of Schedule 4 to this Act, ”; and\n(c) after the words “the Professional Conduct Committee” there shall be inserted the words “ , the Committee on Professional Performance ”.\n(3) In subsection (2)—\n(a) after the words “Schedule 4 to this Act” there shall be inserted the words “ or in accordance with rules made by virtue of paragraph 5A(3) of that Schedule ”; and\n(b) after the words “section 40 below” there shall be inserted the words “ or paragraph 5A(4) of that Schedule ”.\n(4) In subsection (3), after the words “the Professional Conduct Committee” there shall be inserted the words “ , the Committee on Professional Performance ”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1995/51/schedule/paragraph/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:32:34.171825+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."
}