Statutory Instruments
1987 No. 102

MEDICAL PROFESSION
The General Medical Council (Registration (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations) Order of Council 1987

Made
29th January 1987

Coming into force
1st February 1987

At the Council Chamber, Whitehall, the 29th day of January 1987

By the Lords of Her Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council

Whereas in pursuance of section 32 of the Medical Act 1983(1) the General Medical Council have made the Medical Practitioners Registration (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 1986:
And whereas by subsection (8) of the said section such regulations shall not have effect until approved by Order of the Privy Council;

Now, therefore, Their Lordships, having taken the said regulations into consideration, are hereby pleased to approve the same as set out in the Schedule to this Order with effect from 1st February 1987.

This Order may be cited as the General Medical Council (Registration (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations) Order of Council 1987.

G. I. de Deney
Clerk of the Privy Council

SCHEDULETHE MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS REGISTRATION (FEES) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS 1986

The General Medical Council in exercise of their powers under section 32 of the Medical Act 1983 hereby make the following regulations:—
Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) These regulations may be cited as the Medical Practitioners Registration (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 1986 and shall comeinto operation on 1st February 1987.

(2) In these regulations“the principal regulations” means the Medical Practitioners Registration (Fees) Regulations 1985(2).

Amendment of principal regulations

2.  For Regulations 3(2) and 4(2) of the principal regulations there shall be substituted the following:—

“3.—(2) The scrutiny fee shall be:—

(a)For applications under section 19:

(i)in the case of a person who has been provisionally registered ... ... ... ...£22

(ii)In the case of any other person ... ... ... ...£42

(b)For applications under section 21 ... ... ... ...£20

(c)For applications by virtue of section 25 ... ... ... ...£140

except in the case of a person who has obtained a primary United Kingdom qualification, when no fee shall be payable

(d)For applications under section 27 ... ... ... ...£42.”;

“4.—(2) The fees for the making of entries in the register shall be:—

(a)On provisional registration under section 15 of the Act ... ... ... ...£30

(b)On provisional registration under section 21 of the Act ... ... ... ...£56

(c)On full registration under section 3 of the Act:

(i)in the case of a person who is or has at any time been provisionally registered ... ... ... ...£55

(ii)in the case of any other person ... ... ... ...£85

except in the case of a person who is already fully registered when no fee shall be payable

(d)On full registration under section 19 of the Act:

(i)in the case of a person who is or has at any time been provisionally registered ... ... ... ...£84

(ii)in the case of any other person ... ... ... ...£140

(e)On full registration by virtue of section 25 of the Act ... ... ... ...£140

(f)On registration under section 27 of the Act ... ... ... ...£140.”

Given under the official seal of the General Medical Council this 3rd day of December, nineteen hundred and eighty-six.

L.S.
J. N. Walton,
President

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)
The regulations approved by this Order increase, by approximately 40 per cent, the fees payable to the General Medical Council by overseas qualified medical practitioners in respect of the scrutiny of applications from such practitioners for registration and the making of entries in the register of medical practitioners, with effect from 1st February 1987.


(1)
1983 c. 54.

(2)
approved by S.I. 1986/149.