MEDICAL COUNCIL (PENALTIES) REGULATIONS * (penalties)

MEDICAL COUNCIL (PENALTIES)

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 464.18

MEDICAL COUNCIL (PENALTIES) REGULATIONS *

3rd February, 2009

LEGAL NOTICE 38 of 2009.

The title of these regulations is the Medical Council

(Penalties) Regulations.

In such cases as the Medical Council is satisfied that a

charge against a practitioner has been proved, then it may impose a

penalty not exceeding twenty thousand euro.

If a practitioner fails to pay such penalty as is imposed on

him within three months from the date when the penalty is

imposed, then the Medical Council shall order that the

practitioner ’s name to be erased from any appropriate register

without further notice.

Where the name of a practitioner has been erased from any

register for the reason mentioned in regulation 3, the practitioner’s

name shall only be restored to the appropriate register when full

payment of the penalty is effected and, in such case, the Medical

Council shall order his name to be restored to the appropriate

register with immediate effect.

*These Regulations have been repealed by Legal Notice 249 of 2025.