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The Medical Act 1983 Amendments (Transitional Provisions Relating to Postgraduate Training) Order of Council 2007

S.I. 2007/1886 · Made 25 June 2007

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health care and associated professions

doctors

Made 25th June 2007

Laid before Parliament 4th July 2007

Coming into force 1st August 2007

At the Council Chamber, Whitehall, the 25th day of June 2007

By the Lords of Her Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council

Their Lordships make the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred upon them by article 92(1) of the Medical Act 1983 (Amendment) and Miscellaneous Amendments Order 2006f1.

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

S.I. 2006/1914.

Contents

  1. 1Citation, commencement and interpretation
  2. 2Provisionally registered medical practitioners who commenced house officer training before 1st August 2007
  3. 3Duration
  4. Signature
  5. Explanatory note

1Citation, commencement and interpretation

(1)

This Order may be cited as the Medical Act 1983 Amendments (Transitional Provisions Relating to Postgraduate Training) Order of Council 2007 and shall come into force on 1st August 2007.

(2)

In this Order, “the Amending Order” means the Medical Act 1983 (Amendment) and Miscellaneous Amendments Order 2006.

(3)

Words and expressions used both in article 2 and in the Medical Act 1983 as in force on 31st July 2007 bear the meanings they bear in the Medical Act 1983 as in force on that date.

2Provisionally registered medical practitioners who commenced house officer training before 1st August 2007

If a person, after passing a qualifying examination, was engaged in employment in a resident medical capacity before 1st August 2007 for the purposes of obtaining a certificate under section 10 of the Medical Act 1983f1 (experience required for full registration by virtue of primary United Kingdom qualifications) as in force on 31st July 2007—

(a)

his examining body may award him a certificate under the said section 10 on or after 1st August 2007, if it would have been entitled to do so before 1st August 2007, notwithstanding the repeal of the said section 10 by virtue of article 23 of the Amending Order (accordingly, Part 2 of the Medical Act 1983 and the subordinate instruments under it, as in force on 31st July 2007, are transitionally preserved for these purposes); and

(b)

if as a consequence of obtaining a certificate under the said section 10—

(i)

by virtue of paragraph (a), or

(ii)

from an examining body before 1st August 2007,

a person who is not fully registered would have been entitled to be fully registered, or the General Council would have directed that he be fully registered, under the relevant section in Part 2 or 3 of the Medical Act 1983 but for the amendments made to those Parts by the Amending Order, he shall be so registered under the relevant section in those Parts, notwithstanding the amendments made by the Amending Order (accordingly, Parts 2 and 3 of the Medical act 1983 and the subordinate instruments under them, as in force on 31st July 2007, are transitionally preserved for these purposes).

3Duration

This Order shall cease to have effect on 1st August 2009.

Signature

Judith Simpson

Clerk of the Privy Council

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order of the Privy Council enables provisionally registered doctors who commenced house officer training before the new arrangements for postgraduate medical training introduced by Part 3 of the Medical Act 1983 (Amendment) and Miscellaneous Amendments Order 2006 come into force on 1st August 2007 to complete their training, and to be fully registered, in accordance with the old arrangements for postgraduate medical training and subsequent full registration. These transitional arrangements will come to an end on 1st August 2009.