Medical Practitioners Act 2007

94

Duty of registered medical practitioners to maintain professional competence.

94.— (1) A registered medical practitioner shall maintain the practitioner’s professional competence on an ongoing basis pursuant to a professional competence scheme applicable to that practitioner.

(2) A registered medical practitioner shall co-operate with any requirements imposed on the practitioner in rules made under section 11.

(3) The Council may, by notice in writing given to a registered medical practitioner whose registration does not fall within subsection (2) but who has given an undertaking pursuant to F205[section 59A(1) or 67(1)], require the practitioner to co-operate with such an undertaking to the satisfaction of the Council.

(4) A medical practitioner shall comply with a notice under subsection (3) given to the practitioner.

Annotations

Amendments:

F205

Substituted (6.05.2025) by Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Act 2020 (16/2020), s. 137, S.I. No. 151 of 2025.

Editorial Notes:

E85

Relevant rules to be applied in respect of subs. (2) specified (18.01.2011) by Medical Council — Rules for the Maintenance of Professional Competence (No. 1) (S.I. No. 171 of 2011).