Article 12 Existing specialists
A person is entitled to have his name included in the specialist register if he applies to the Registrar of the GMC for the purpose before 1st January 1998, or later if he satisfies the Registrar that there was good reason for not applying by then (paying any fee determined by the GMC) and satisfies him—
that he is a registered medical practitioner and, in the case of an oral and maxillo-facial surgeon, that he is also a registered dentist; and
that he falls within paragraph (2).
A person falls within this paragraph if—
he is, or has been, a consultant in the National Health Service in a medical specialty other than general practice; or
he has been accredited in such a specialty; or
he has satisfied the STA that—
he has been trained in the United Kingdom in such a specialty and that training complied with the requirements relating to training in that specialty current in the United Kingdom at the time he undertook it, or
he has qualifications awarded in the United Kingdom in such a specialty that are equivalent to a CCST in that specialty.
In paragraph (2)(b), “accredited” refers to the former practice whereby certain medical Royal Colleges and Faculties acknowledged the satisfactory completion of a period of specialist training, to a level previously determined by that body, by granting an application for accreditation made by the person who had completed the training.