French Public Health Code
In forceThe disciplinary penalties that the Disciplinary Chamber of First Instance may impose are as follows:
1° A warning ;
2° a reprimand
3° A temporary ban, with or without a suspended sentence, or a permanent ban from exercising one, several or all of the functions of doctor, dental surgeon or midwife, conferred or remunerated by the State, departments, municipalities, public establishments, establishments recognised as being of public utility or the same functions performed in application of social laws;
4° A temporary ban on practising, with or without a suspended sentence; this ban may not exceed three years;
5° Removal from the roll of the association.
The first two of these penalties also entail forfeiture of the right to sit on a council, a social insurance section of the chamber of first instance or the social insurance section of the National Council, a disciplinary chamber of first instance or the national disciplinary chamber of the Association for a period of three years; the following penalties entail permanent forfeiture of this right. A doctor, dental surgeon or midwife who has been struck off the roll may not be entered on another roll of the Association. The other departmental councils and the national disciplinary chamber will be informed of the decision that has been taken as soon as it has become final.
The penalties and prohibitions provided for in this article apply throughout the territory of the Republic.
If, for acts committed within five years of notification of a suspended sanction, once this sanction has become final, the court imposes one of the sanctions provided for in 3° and 4°, it may decide that the suspended part of the sanction becomes enforceable without prejudice to the application of the new sanction.
