If you have permanent restrictions placed on your practice by SMC,  you cannot convert to full registration. Doctors who are restricted to practise only in certain specialties or sub-specialties and places of practice thus cannot convert to full registration as long as the restrictions remain in force.  Besides restrictions put in place at the time the practising certificate was first issued under conditional registration, the restrictions also include conditions under conditional registration imposed by the Council, either through a disciplinary inquiry, an Interim Orders Committee inquiry or a health inquiry.