The General Medical Council (Constitution) (Amendment) Order 2012

• Citation: S.I. 2012/1654
• Sections: 2

Section 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

(1) This Order may be cited as the General Medical Council (Constitution) (Amendment) Order 2012.

(2) This Order comes into force on 1st January 2013.

(3) In this Order, “the Constitution Order ” means the General Medical Council (Constitution) Order 2008 .

Section 2 Amendment of the Constitution Order

(1) The Constitution Order is amended as follows.

(2) In article 2, in both places where it occurs, for “12” substitute “6”.

(3) For article 8 substitute—

Appointment, term of office and cessation of office of the chair

(8)

(1) The Privy Council must, as one of its functions relating to the appointment of members of the General Council, appoint the chair of the General Council.

(2) The Privy Council may appoint a person to be the chair of the General Council (“the appointee”)—

(a) when it appoints that person to be a member of the General Council; or

(b) whom it has already appointed as a member of the General Council.

(3) The Privy Council must, upon making the appointment, determine the term of the appointee’s office as chair and that term cannot last beyond the date on which the appointee’s term of office as a member of the General Council is due to expire (irrespective of whether or not the appointee is thereafter reappointed as a member of the General Council).

(4) An appointee ceases to be chair upon—

(a) ceasing to be a member of the General Council;

(b) resigning as chair, which the appointee may do at any time by a notice in writing to the General Council;

(c) suspension of the appointee’s membership of the General Council by the Privy Council; or

(d) a vote to terminate the appointee’s appointment as chair by a majority of all the other members of the General Council.

(4) In article 11, for “14” substitute “7”.