Medical Registration (Disciplinary Commission and Disciplinary Tribunal) Rules 2022

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1 Citation and commencement

3 Referral of time-barred complaints

4 Referral for appointment of Disciplinary Tribunal in serious cases

5 Referral for appointment of Disciplinary Tribunal where recommended by Complaints Committee

6 Joining of disciplinary offences in one inquiry for one respondent

7 Joint inquiry against 2 or more respondents

8 Joining of inquiries with consent

9 Disciplinary Tribunal may hold separate inquiries where respondent is prejudiced

10 Notice of inquiry

11 Summary of defence

12 Pre-hearing conference

13 Disclosure of documents

14 Requests for confidential treatment

15 Disciplinary Tribunal may give directions by letter

16 Preparation of agreed documents

17 Exchange of documents

18 Medical Council to send hearing bundle

19 Postponement of hearing

20 Conduct of hearing

21 Disciplinary Tribunal may make directions for conduct of hearing

22 Reference to documents where no relevant witness is called

23 Medical Council may withdraw charge or consent to amendment, etc., of charges

24 Disciplinary Tribunal may alter charge or frame new charge

25 Findings of Disciplinary Tribunal

26 Outstanding charges

27 Warning may be administered where party hampers inquiry

28 Tribunal’s legal counsel must not intervene

29 Disciplinary Tribunal may meet to consider further orders

31 Secretariat of the Disciplinary Commission

32 Records to be kept by Disciplinary Commission

No. S 537

Medical Registration Act 1997

Medical Registration
(Disciplinary Commission and
Disciplinary Tribunal) Rules 2022

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 70A of the Medical Registration Act 1997, the Minister for Health makes the following Rules:

PART 1

PRELIMINARY

Citation and commencement

1. These Rules are the Medical Registration (Disciplinary Commission and Disciplinary Tribunal) Rules 2022 and come into operation on 1 July 2022.

Definitions

2. In these Rules, unless the context otherwise requires —

“disciplinary offence” means an act or omission in respect of which a practitioner may be subject to disciplinary proceedings under Part 7 of the Act;

“first hearing date”, in relation to a hearing of an inquiry, means the date fixed for the commencement of the hearing;

“hearing” means the hearing of an inquiry by a Disciplinary Tribunal and includes a resumed hearing under rule 21(3);

“inquiry” means a formal inquiry that a Disciplinary Tribunal is appointed under section 58(1) or 59(1) of the Act to conduct;

“party” means a party to an inquiry;

“respondent”, in relation to a complaint or an inquiry, means the registered medical practitioner who is the subject of the complaint or inquiry, as the case may be;

“Secretariat of the Disciplinary Commission” means the Secretariat comprising public officers appointed under rule 31.

Made on 27 June 2022.

CHAN YENG KIT

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Health,
Singapore.

[MH 78:02\012; AG/LEGIS/SL/174/2020/2 Vol. 1]

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