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The Medical Profession (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2008 (Commencement No. 1) Order of Council 2009

S.I. 2009/280 · Made 12 February 2009

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Health Care And Associated Professions

Made 12th February 2009

At the Council Chamber, Whitehall, the 12th day of February 2009

By the Lords of Her Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council

Their Lordships make the following Order of Council in exercise of the powers conferred by article 1(4) of the Medical Profession (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2008f1.

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

S.I. 2008/3131.

Contents

  1. 1Citation
  2. 2Appointed day
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1Citation

This Order may be cited as the Medical Profession (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2008 (Commencement No. 1) Order of Council 2009.

2Appointed day

16th March 2009 is the day appointed for the coming into force of article 4 of, and Schedule 2 to, the Medical Profession (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2008.

Signature

Judith Simpson

Clerk of the Privy Council

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order brings into force, on 16th March 2009, the provisions of the Medical Profession (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2008 that relate to providing additional grounds for eligibility on which certain medical practitioners will be able rely in order to have their names included in the Specialist Register, which is held by the General Medical Council. The new scheme will apply to medical practitioners who were consultants in the National Health Service or the armed forces before 1st January 1997 and whose names are not yet included in that Register.