SCHEDULE
THE GENERAL MEDICAL COUNCIL HEALTH COMMITTEE (PROCEDURE) (AMENDMENT) RULES 1996
The General Medical Council, in exercise of their powers under paragraph 1 of Schedule 4 to the Medical Act 1983, and after consulting with such bodies of persons representing medical practitioners as appeared to the Council to be requisite, as required by that paragraph, hereby make the following rules: —
1. Citation, commencement and interpretation
(1) These rules may be cited as the General Medical Council Health Committee (Procedure) (Amendment) Rules 1996, and shall come into force on 30th May 1996.
(2) In these rules—
“the principal rules”means the General Medical Council Health Committee (Procedure) Rules 19872.
2. Amendment of the principal rules
(1) The principal rules shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions.
(2) In Rule 2 (Interpretation) for the definition of “person acting in a public capacity”there shall be substituted““person acting in a public capacity”means an officer of a Health Authority, a special Health Authority, a Health Board, the Common Services Agency of the NHS in Scotland, the Health Common Services Authority, the Central Services Agency, a Health and Social Services Trust, a Health and Social Services Board, an NHS Trust, a hospital or board of governors of a hospital, or of a Hospital Medical Staff Committee or body exercising similar functions, or of a Local or Area Medical Committee, or of a medical Royal College, or of a Licensing Body (that is, a university or other body granting primary United Kingdom medical qualifications), or of a Government Department or Agency, or any other local or public authority, or any person holding judicial office, or any officer attached to a Court, or the Solicitor to the Council, where the person concerned is acting in that official capacity;”.
(3) For Rule 28 (Revocation of order for interim suspension or interim conditional registration) there shall be substituted the following—
“Interim suspension or interim conditional registration
28.—(1) Where, in any case referred either by the Preliminary Proceedings Committee or by the Professional Conduct Committee, an order made by that Committee for interim suspension or for interim conditional registration is in force, (or where an order made under...
