{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medical-act-1983-provisional-registration-regulations-2000/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medical-act-1983-provisional-registration-regulations-2000/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2000/3041",
  "legislation_title": "The Medical Act 1983 (Provisional Registration) Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medical-act-1983-provisional-registration-regulations-2000",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Insertion of section 15A",
  "text": "After section 15, there shall be inserted the following section—\n“Provisional registration for EEA nationals\n15A (1) This section shall have effect for enabling a national of an EEA State to be employed for the purpose of enabling him to acquire the clinical experience under appropriate supervision which he needs in order to obtain a primary European qualification.\n(2) A national of an EEA State who, but for the acquisition of suitable clinical experience, has completed the training required for a primary European qualification, shall be entitled to be registered provisionally under this section.\n(3) Any person who—\n(a) is not a national of an EEA State; but\n(b) is, by virtue of a right conferred by article 11 of Regulation (EEC) No. 1612/68, or any other enforceable Community right, entitled to be treated, for the purposes of access to and the practice of the medical profession, no less favourably than a national of such a State,\nshall be treated for the purposes of subsections (1) and (2) as if he were such a national.\n(4) Subsection (3) of section 15 above shall apply for the purposes of this section as it applies for the purposes of that.\n(5) For the purposes of subsection (2), a person has completed the training required for a primary European qualification, but for the acquisition of suitable clinical experience, where he has obtained a medical degree which guarantees that he has fulfilled the requirements of Article 23, paragraph 1(a), (b) and (c) of Directive 93/16/EEC.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ No. L257, 19.10.68, p. 1."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "OJ No. L165, 7.7.93, p. 1."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/3041/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:10:44.350594+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}