Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Act 2020

Amendment of section 91 of Act of 2007

136. Section 91 of the Act of 2007 is amended by the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (7):

“(7) Where, arising from the performance of its duty under subsection (1), the Council considers that a medical practitioner registered in the General Division, the Specialist Division, the Trainee Specialist Division or the Supervised Division has been given every reasonable opportunity by the Council to improve the practitioner’s professional performance but whose professional competence is found by the Council to continue to be below the standards of competence that can reasonably be expected for continued registration in the General Division, the Specialist Division, the Trainee Specialist Division or the Supervised Division, as the case may be, then the Council may make a complaint.”.