Section 38: Power to confer right of appeal from determination of committee as to medical practitioner's qualifications

Health Services and Public Health Act 1968 · 1968 c.46

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38(1)

The power conferred by section 41 of the 1946 Act to prescribe the qualifications to be possessed by a medical practitioner shall include power to confer on a person who is dissatisfied with the determination of a committee to whom, in pursuance of regulations made in exercise of the power so conferred, he is required to show that he possesses qualifications, a right of appeal to a committee appointed by the Minister, and to make provision for any matter for which it appears to the Minister to be requisite or expedient to make provision in consequence of the conferring of that right.

38(2)

Section 21(1) of the 1949 Act (removal of doubts as to powers to prescribe qualifications of medical practitioners) shall have effect with the omission of the words " or to the satisfaction of the Minister acting on the advice of such a committee ".

38(3)

This section shall have effect in Scotland as if, in subsection (1) thereof, for the reference to section 41 of the 1946 Act there were substituted a reference to section 42 of the 1947 Act; and as if, in subsection (2) thereof, for the words " the Minister " there were substituted the words " the Secretary of State ".

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