S.I. No. 231 of 2008 .

MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS ACT 2007 (COMMENCEMENT) (NO. 2) ORDER 2008

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of 4th July, 2008.

I, MARY HARNEY, Minister for Health and Children, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by subsections (3) and (4) (inserted by the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2007 (No. 42 of 2007)) of section 1 of the Medical Practitioners Act 2007 (No. 25 of 2007), hereby order as follows:

1. This Order may be cited as the Medical Practitioners Act 2007 (Commencement) (No. 2) Order 2008.

2. The 3rd day of July 2008 is appointed as the day on which the following provisions of the Medical Practitioners Act 2007 (No. 25 of 2007) (as amended by the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2007 (No. 42 of 2007)) shall come into operation:

(a) section 3(1) and Part 1 of Schedule 1 insofar as they relate to the repeal of the provisions of the Medical Practitioners Act 1978 (No. 4 of 1978) specified in Part 1 of the Schedule to this Order but not any of those provisions insofar as they are applied by section 44 of that Act to the Postgraduate Medical and Dental Board;

(b) section 3(2) and Part 2 of Schedule 1 insofar as they relate to the revocation of the Regulations specified in Part 2 of the Schedule to this Order;

(c) Part 2 other than paragraphs (a) to (h) of section 7(2);

(d) Part 3;

(e) Part 4 insofar as it is not already in operation;

(f) Part 5 other than sections 35(3)(a) and 36;

(g) Part 7 other than subsection (1)(b) insofar as it relates to a professional competence scheme, and subsection (2)(c), of section 61;

(h) Part 8 other than section 67(1)(b);

(i) Part 9 other than sections 71(d), 72(1)(c) and 84(1)(f) and subsections (2) and (4) of section 78;

(j) subsections (1) and (4) (insofar as it applies to the said subsection (1)) of section 104 and sections 107 (other than subsection (4)) and 108 (other than subsection (2)); and

(k) Schedule 2.

SCHEDULE

PART 1

PROVISIONS OF ACT REPEALED

Parts II (other than section 25) and V and section 69 of, and the Second Schedule to, the Medical Practitioners Act 1978 (No. 4 of 1978).

PART 2

STATUTORY INSTRUMENT REVOKED

Medical Council (Election of Members) Regulations 1978 ( S.I. No. 197 of 1978 ).

GIVEN under my Official Seal,

1 July 2008

MARY HARNEY,

Minister for Health and Children.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation).

This Order brings into operation, on 3 July 2008, certain provisions of the Medical Practitioners Act 2007 , as amended by the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2007 , in relation to the first meeting of the Medical Council under the Act, governance matters, and the processing of complaints concerning registered medical practitioners by the Medical Council.