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A.D. 1879. registrar either before the second notice is sent receives the first notice back from the dead letter office of the Postmaster General, or receives the second notice back from that office, or does not within three months after sending the second notice receive any answer thereto from the said person, that person shall, for the 5
pur- pose of the present section, be deemed to have ceased to practise, and his name may be erased accordingly.
Erasing from
medical rogister
Dame of practitioner
convicted of crime or guilty of disgraceful
conduct.
Restoration
of name to medical register.
(4.) In the execution of his duties the registrar shall act on such evidence as in each case appears sufficient.
12. The General Medical Council shall cause to be erased from 10 the medical register any entry which has been incorrectly or fraudulently made.
Where a person registered in the medical register has, either before or after the commencement of this Act, and either before or after he is so registered, been convicted either in Her 15 Majesty's dominions or elsewhere of an offence which, if com- mitted in England, would be a felony or misdemeanor, or been guilty of any infamous or disgraceful conduct in a professional respect, that person shall be liable to have his name erased from the register.
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The General Medical Council may, and upon the application of any of the medical authorities shall, cause inquiry to be made into the case of a person alleged to be liable to have his name erased under this section, and, on proof of such conviction or of such infamous or disgraceful conduct, shall cause the name of such 25 person to be erased from the register:
Provided that the name of a person shall not be erased under this section on account of his adopting or refraining from adopting the practice of any particular theory of medicine or surgery, nor on account of a conviction for a political offence out of Her Majesty's 30 dominions, nor on account of a conviction for an offence which, though within the provisions of this section, does not, either from the trivial nature of the offence or from the circumstances under which it was committed, disqualify a person for practising medicine and surgery.
13. Where the General Medical Council direct the erasure from the medical register of the name of any person, or of any other entry, the name of that person, or that entry shall not be again entered in the register, except by direction of the General Medical Council, or by order of a court of competent jurisdiction.
If the General Medical Council think fit in any case, they may direct the medical registrar to restore to the medical register any
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[42 VICT.] name or entry erased therefrom (either before or after the com- mencement of this Act), either without fee or on payment of such fee, not exceeding the registration fee, as the General Medical Council from time to time fix, and the registrar shall restore the ō same accordingly.
The name of any person erased (cither before or after the com- mencement of this Act) from the medical register at the request of such person or with his consent shall, unless it might, if not so erased, have been erased by order of the General Medical Council,
10 be restored to the register on his application, on payment of such fee not exceeding the registration fee as the General Medical Council from time to time fix.
A.D. 1879.
of medical
14. The General Medical Council shall for the purpose of Committee exercising in any case the powers of erasing from and of restoring council for 15 to the medical register the name of a person or an entry, ascertain purpose of
erasure from the facts of such case by a committee of their own body, not and restora- exceeding seven in number, of whom the quorum shall be not less tion to the
register. than three, and a report of the Committee shall be conclusive as to the facts for the purpose of the exercise of the said powers by 20 the General Medical Council.
The General Medical Council shall from time to time appoint and shall always maintain a committee for the purposes of this section, and subject to the provisions of this section may from time to time determine the constitution, and the number and tenure of office of 25 the members, of the committee, and may, if they think fit, appoint the executive committee to be the committee for the purposes of this section.
The committee from time to time shall meet for the despatch of business, and, subject to the provisions of this section, and of
30 any regulations from time to time made by the General Medical Council, may regulate the summoning notice place management and adjournment of such meetings, the appointment of a chair- man, the mode of deciding questions, and generally the transaction and management of business, including the quorum, and if there is 35 a quorum the committee may act notwithstanding any vacancy in their body. In the case of any vacancy the committee may appoint a member of the General Medical Council to fill the vacancy until the next meeting of that Council.
A committee under this section may, for the purpose of the 40 execution of their duties under this Act, employ at the expense of the Council such legal or other assessor or assistants as the committee think necessary or proper.
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