{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medical-act-1983/section-15A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medical-act-1983/section-15A.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1983/54",
  "legislation_title": "Medical Act 1983",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medical-act-1983",
  "path": "section/15A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "15A",
  "heading": "Provisional registration for EEA nationals etc",
  "text": "(1) This section shall have effect for enabling a national of a relevant European 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 a relevant European 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 if\n(a) the person has made an application, before IP completion day, for registration under this section, and\n(b) the person's fitness to practise is not impaired..\n(3) Any person who—\n(a) is not a national of a relevant European State; but\n(b) is, by virtue of any enforceable EU 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 paragraph 3(a), (b) and (c) of article 24 of the Directive (basic medical training).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 15A inserted (4.12.2000) by S.I. 2000/3041, reg. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 15A(1) substituted (3.12.2007) by The European Qualifications (Health and Social Care Professions) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/3101), regs. 1(2), 9(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 15A(2) substituted (3.12.2007) by The European Qualifications (Health and Social Care Professions) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/3101), regs. 1(2), 9(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 15A(2) added (19.7.2006 for specified purposes, 19.10.2007 in so far as not already in force as notified in the London Gazette dated 20.7.2007) by The Medical Act 1983 (Amendment) and Miscellaneous Amendments Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/1914), arts. 1(2)(b)(c)(3), 46"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 15A(2) substituted 31.12.2020) by The European Qualifications (Health and Social Care Professions) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/593), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 8 (with reg. 12A, Sch. 1 Pt. 2) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1394, regs. 4, 8(2), 9); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 15A(3)(a) substituted (3.12.2007) by The European Qualifications (Health and Social Care Professions) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/3101), regs. 1(2), 9(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in s. 15A(3)(b) substituted (3.12.2007) by The European Qualifications (Health and Social Care Professions) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/3101), regs. 1(2), 9(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in Act substituted (22.4.2011) by The Treaty of Lisbon (Changes in Terminology) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/1043), arts. 2, 3, 6 (with arts. 3(2)(3), 4(2), 6(4)(5))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in s. 15A(5) substituted (3.12.2007) by The European Qualifications (Health and Social Care Professions) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/3101), regs. 1(2), 9(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Word in s. 15A heading inserted (3.12.2007) by The European Qualifications (Health and Social Care Professions) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/3101), regs. 1(2), 9(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1983/54/section/15A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:04:57.676542+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."
}