Section 16 Registration of qualifications.

United Kingdom

(1)

A person registered under F1section 3, F214A, 15 or 15A above F3or 18A below shall be entitled to have registered F4any primary United Kingdom qualification or qualifications or primary European qualification or qualifications which he holds when he is so registered and also—

(a)

any other primary United Kingdom qualification or qualification specified in F5Annex V, point 5.1.1 of the Directive (evidence of formal qualifications in basic medical training) which he obtains after registration;

(b)

subject to subsection (3) below, any additional qualification which F6the General Council determine ought to be registrable by virtue of this paragraph which he holds when he is registered or obtains thereafter;

(c)

any F7. . . 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.

(2)

In this Act “additional qualification” means any qualification granted in F8a relevant European State other than F9... a qualification specified in F10Annex V, point 5.1.1 of the Directive (evidence of formal qualifications in basic medical training).

(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.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Words in s. 16(1) substituted (4.12.2000) by S.I. 2000/3041, reg. 4(1)
F2: 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)
F3: 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
F4: 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)
F5: 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)
F6: 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)
F7: 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)
F8: 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)
F9: 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)
F10: 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)