The General Medical Council (Voluntary Erasure and Restoration following Voluntary Erasure) (Amendment) Regulations Order of Council 2009

• Citation: S.I. 2009/2763
• Sections: 2

Section 1 Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the General Medical Council (Voluntary Erasure and Restoration following Voluntary Erasure) (Amendment) Regulations 2009 and shall come into force on 16th November 2009.

Section 2 Consequential amendments

In the General Medical Council (Voluntary Erasure and Restoration following Voluntary Erasure) Regulations 2004 —

(1) In regulation 2:

(a) omit the definition of “the Fees Regulations”;

(b) for the definition of “lay”, substitute the following: “means a person who is not and never has been provisionally or fully registered, was at no time registered with limited registration and does not hold qualifications which would entitle them to apply for provisional or full registration under the Act”;

(c) in the definitions of “medical” and “practitioner”, for “registered medical practitioner”, substitute “person registered under the Act, whether or not they hold a licence to practise”.

(2) In regulations 3(2)(a) and 4(2)(a), for “registration number” substitute “ GMC Reference Number”.

(3) Omit sub-paragraph (h) of regulation 4(2).

(4) Omit regulation 7.