The General Medical Council (Professional Performance) Rules Order of Council 1997

Made: 17th June 1997

Laid before Parliament: 17th June 1997

Coming into force: 1st July 1997

At the Council Chamber, Whitehall, The 17th day of June 1997 By the Lords of Her Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council

NOW, THEREFORE, Their Lordships, having taken the said Rules into consideration, are hereby pleased to approve the same.

This Order may be cited as the General Medical Council (Professional Performance) Rules Order of Council 1997, and shall come into force on 1st July 1997.

THE GENERAL MEDICAL COUNCIL (PROFESSIONAL PERFORMANCE) RULES 1997

Signed

N. H. Nicholls — Clerk of the Privy Council

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

The rules approved by this Order give effect to the provisions brought into force by the Medical (Professional Performance) Act 1995 (Commencement No. 3) Order 1997 relating to the powers of the General Medical Council (GMC), through its appropriate Committees, to investigate cases where there is evidence that a practitioner’s general standard of professional performance has been seriously deficient. The rules set out the procedures to be followed relating to the assessment of practitioners' performance, in particular the procedures of the two new committees established under the Act, the Assessment Referral Committee and the Committee on Professional Performance. The procedures are to be implemented on 1st July 1997.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1983 c. 54. The Act was amended by the Medical (Professional Performance) Act 1995 (c. 51).

[^f00002]: 1983 c. 54 This Act was amended by the Medical (Professional Performance) Act 1995 (c. 51).

[^f00003]: S.I. 1988/2255 amended by S.I. 1989/656, 1990/1587, 1994/2022 and 1996/2125.

[^f00004]: S.I. 1987/2174 amended by S.I. 1996/1219.

[^f00005]: 1977 c. 49. This Act was amended by the Health Authorities Act 1995 c. 17.

[^f00006]: 1978 c. 29.

[^f00007]: 1990 c. 19.

[^f00008]: S.I. 1972/1265 (N.I.14).

[^f00009]: 1997 c. 46.

[^f00010]: 1978 c. 30.

[^f00011]: 1977 c. 49. This Act was amended by the Health Authorities Act 1995 c. 17.

[^f00012]: 1978 c. 29.

[^f00013]: 1990 c. 19.

[^f00014]: S.I. 1972/1265 (N.I.14).

[^f00015]: 1997 c. 46.