Explanatory note

This Order, which is made under the General and Specialist Medical Practice (Education, Training and Qualifications) Order 2003, approves Rules made by the Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Board (“the Board”). The Rules approved provide for the circumstances in which, and the procedure to be followed when, a member of the Board is to be removed as a member.

The Rules provide for the removal of a member by the Board upon the happening of specified events that make the person unsuitable to continue in the office of member (rules 3 and 4).

The Chair or Deputy Chair of the Board is required to notify the member who is to be removed, as well as the authority that appointed the member, of the Board’s decision to remove a member and its reasons. Provision is also made in respect of the manner of serving the notice on the member who is to be removed (rule 5).