Report of the Executive Committee on the constitution and working of the General Medical Council : memorandum by Dr. Pitman and Sir James Paget : memorandum by Dr. Quain : and appendix containing documents in regard to the Council.

  • General Medical Council. Executive Committee.
Date:
1879
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Credit: Report of the Executive Committee on the constitution and working of the General Medical Council : memorandum by Dr. Pitman and Sir James Paget : memorandum by Dr. Quain : and appendix containing documents in regard to the Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the Board of Trade, who, by virtue of his office, was to be President of the Council. This United Council was to elect a Vice-President from its own Body, and to appoint Treasurers, Registrars, Secretaries, and other officers for the Genenvl Council and the three Sub- Councils for England, Scotland, and Ireland. Council 7. By a Bill of date June 10, 1856—endorsed by the same Education of namcs as ^^08. 4 and 5, and headed As amended by the Select Kiiigdom/' Committee —the Medical Council was to consist of 13 members, J3 members! thereof 6 wcre to form a quorum; the President of the Board of Trade being, as in No. 6, constituted ex-officio Chairman of the Council, with power to summon meetings when necessary, and to nominate one of the other members to be the Vice- Chairman of the Council; and the other 12 members were to be Crown nominees, whereof not less than 9 were to be selected from registered Practitioners, of whom not less than 2 were to be from Scotland, and not less than 2 from Ireland. Of the Crown nominees, 3 were to be appointed for a term of four years, 3 for a term of five years, 3 for a term of six years, and the remaining 3 for a term of seven years, but all were to be eligible for immediate re-appointment. Council em- This Council was empowered to delegate any of its functions deilgate any to Committees of their own body of such number, not less than tions to*' 3, as they may think fit, and it was further provided that any Committees. ^ Qf ^\^q members of any such Committee shall be competent to exercise and perform the powers and duties delegated to such Committee. This constitution was twice thereafter repeated, in two Bills of dates May 15, 1857, and March 16, 1858—both of which were introduced by Lord Elcho, Mr. FitzRot, and Mr. Craufurd. *« General 8. A Bill of date May 13, 1857—prepared and brought in Medical bj Mr. Headlam, Sir William Heathcote, and Mr. Napier— Education p^-oposed, under the same designation as at present, a Council of of^th?^^^°'^ 23 members, whereof 6 were to be Crown nominees, who were ^^^^^'} T, not to be Members of Council or office-bearers in auy of the Kingdom, to consist of Medical Colleges or Societies, and the other 17 were to be 23 members. ° ' elected in like manner as the Representative Members of the existing Council are elected, save that the University of Edin- burgh was to have a Representative to itself alone, and that the Universities of Glasgow, Aberdeen, and St. Andrews were to have one Representative collectively.