General Medical Council Disciplinary Committee (Procedure) (Amendment) Rules Order of Council 1978
1978 No. 1796
MEDICAL PROFESSION
The General Medical Council Disciplinary Committee (Procedure) (Amendment) Rules Order of Council 19788thDecember 1978
15thDecember 1978
1stJanuary 1979
At the Council Chamber, Whitehall, the 8th day of December 1978
By the Lords of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council
Whereas in pursuance of section 37(1) of the Medical Act 1956(a) as amended by section 13 of the Medical Act 1969(b) the Disciplinary Committee of the General Medical Council have made the General Medical Council Disciplinary Committee (Procedure) (Amendment) Rules 1978:
And whereas by subsection (3) of the said section 37 such Rules shall not come into force until approved by Order of the Privy Council:
Now, therefore, Their Lordships, having taken the said Rules into consideration, are pleased to approve the same as set out in the Appendix to this Order.
This Order may be cited as the General Medical Council Disciplinary Committee (Procedure) (Amendment) Rules Order of Council 1978, and shall come into operation on 1st January 1979.
N. E. Leigh, Clerk of the Privy Council.
(a) 1956 c. 76.
(b) 1969 c. 40.
APPENDIX
THE GENERAL MEDICAL COUNCIL DISCIPLINARY COMMITTEE (PROCEDURE) (AMENDMENT) RULES 1978
In pursuance of section 37(1) of the Medical Act 1956, as amended by section 13 of the Medical Act 1969, the Disciplinary Committee of the General Medical Council hereby make the following Rules:—
Citation and Commencement
1. These Rules may be cited as the General Medical Council Disciplinary Committee (Procedure) (Amendment) Rules 1978, and shall come into operation on 1st January 1979.
Amendment of the 1970 Rules
2. The General Medical Council Disciplinary Committee (Procedure) Rules 1970(a) shall be amended as follows:—
(a) For Rule 46 there shall be substituted the following Rule:—
"46.—(1) All proceedings before the Committee shall take place in the presence of all parties thereto who appear therein and shall be held in public except as provided by the following paragraphs of this Rule.
(2)(a) If any party to any proceedings or any witness therein makes an application to the Committee for the public to be excluded from any proceedings or part thereof then if it appears to the Committee that any person would suffer undue prejudice from a public hearing or that for any other reason the circumstances and nature of the case make a public hearing unnecessary or undesirable, the Committee may direct that the public shall be so...
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