The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (Charters Amendment) Act 2003

Amendment of Paragraph 18 of the Charter of 1844.

12.— The Charter of 1844, as amended, shall be read and construed as if the following words were deleted therefrom where the same appear at Paragraph 18 thereof that is to say the words:

“AND We do hereby further for us, our heirs and successors, declare and direct that if it shall at any time hereafter appear that any Licentiate or Fellow of the said College shall have obtained his Letters Testimonial or his Diploma respectively by any fraud, false statement or imposition or that he shall have committed, done or suffered any act or thing in consequence or by reason whereof his name shall have been erased from the General Register of Medical Practitioners for Ireland, or shall have been erased or removed from a register or other authorised roll or record of medical practitioners by law established or maintained elsewhere than in Ireland, then in every such case, and after such previous notice to, and such hearing of, such Fellow or Licentiate, as under the circumstances the Council of the said College shall think proper, it shall be lawful for the Council to pass such judgment or censure upon such Fellow or Licentiate or (in case it should seem expedient) to recall and to declare the Letters Testimonial or Diploma respectively, of such Fellow or Licentiate, to be void, and thereupon every such Licentiate or Fellow shall accordingly cease to be a Licentiate or a Fellow of the said College, as the case may be.”

and as if in substitution for the words so last deleted the words:

“AND We do hereby further for us, our heirs and successors, declare and direct that if it shall at any time hereafter appear that any Licentiate, Member or Fellow of the said College shall have obtained his or her Letters Testimonial or his or her Diploma respectively by any fraud, false statement or imposition then in every such case, and after such previous notice to, and such hearing of, such Fellow, Member or Licentiate, as enacted or to be enacted under the Bye-Laws and as under the circumstances the Council of the said College shall think proper and as allows for him or her the exercise of his or her Constitutional rights and respects those rights, it shall be lawful for the Council to pass such judgment or censure upon such Fellow, Member or Licentiate or (in case it should seem expedient) to recall and to declare the Letters Testimonial or Diploma respectively, of such Fellow, Member or Licentiate, to be void, and thereupon every such Licentiate, Member or Fellow shall accordingly cease to be a Licentiate, Member or a Fellow of the said College, as the case may be.”

were inserted.