{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medical-act-1983/section-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medical-act-1983/section-16.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1983/54",
  "legislation_title": "Medical Act 1983",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medical-act-1983",
  "path": "section/16",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Registration of qualifications.",
  "text": "(1) A person registered under section 3, 14A, 15 or 15A above or 18A below shall be entitled to have registered any primary United Kingdom qualification or qualifications or primary European qualification or qualifications which he holds when he is so registered and also—\n(a) any other primary United Kingdom qualification or qualification specified in Annex V, point 5.1.1 of the Directive (evidence of formal qualifications in basic medical training) which he obtains after registration;\n(b) subject to subsection (3) below, any additional qualification which the General Council determine ought to be registrable by virtue of this paragraph which he holds when he is registered or obtains thereafter;\n(c) any . . . qualification which is for the time being registrable by virtue of section 26(1)(b) below which he holds when he is registered or obtains thereafter.\n(2) In this Act “additional qualification” means any qualification granted in a relevant European State other than ... a qualification specified in Annex V, point 5.1.1 of the Directive (evidence of formal qualifications in basic medical training).\n(3) If the General Council determine that any such qualification as is mentioned in paragraph (b) of subsection (1) above ought not to be registrable by virtue of that paragraph if granted before or after a particular date, a person holding that qualification shall not be entitled to have it registered if it was granted to him before or, as the case may be, after that date.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 16(1) substituted (4.12.2000) by S.I. 2000/3041, reg. 4(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in s. 16(1) inserted (3.12.2007) by The European Qualifications (Health and Social Care Professions) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/3101), regs. 1(2), 10(a)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 16(1) inserted (9.7.2008) by The Health Care and Associated Professions (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/1774), art. 1(2)(b), Sch. 1 para. 9"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 16(1) substituted (3.12.2007) by The European Qualifications (Health and Social Care Professions) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/3101), regs. 1(2), 10(a)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 16(1)(a) substituted (3.12.2007) by The European Qualifications (Health and Social Care Professions) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/3101), regs. 1(2), 10(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in Act substituted (1.1.2009) by The Medical Profession (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/3131), Sch. 1 para. 7(1)(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in s. 16(1)(c) omitted (17.12.2002) by virtue of The Medical Act 1983 (Amendment) Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/3135), arts. 1(2)(f), 9(2) (with transitional provisions in Sch. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in s. 16(2) substituted (3.12.2007) by The European Qualifications (Health and Social Care Professions) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/3101), regs. 1(2), 10(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in s. 16(2) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The European Qualifications (Health and Social Care Professions) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/593), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 9 (with reg. 12A, Sch. 1 Pt. 2) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1394, regs. 4, 9); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Words in s. 16(2) substituted (3.12.2007) by The European Qualifications (Health and Social Care Professions) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/3101), regs. 1(2), 10(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1983/54/section/16",
    "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."
}