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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medical-practitioners-vocational-training-regulations-northern-ireland-1998/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1998/13",
  "legislation_title": "Medical Practitioners (Vocational Training) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medical-practitioners-vocational-training-regulations-northern-ireland-1998",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n“the 1978 Order” means the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1978;\n“appeal body” means the body appointed by the Department under regulation 14;\n“certificate of prescribed experience” means a certificate issued pursuant to regulation 10 and, for the purposes of regulation 4 includes a certificate of prescribed experience issued under the Medical Practitioners (Vocational Training) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1979;\n“certificate of equivalent experience” means a certificate issued pursuant to regulation 12 and, for the purposes of regulation 4, includes a certificate of equivalent experience issued under the Medical Practitioners (Vocational Training) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1979;\n“EEA Agreement” means the Agreement on the European Economic Area signed at Oporto on 2nd May 1992 as adjusted by the Protocol signed at Brussels on 17th March 1993 and as amended by Decisions of the EEA Joint Committee Nos. 7/94 of 21st March 1994, 190/1999 of 17th December 1999, 89/2000 of 27th October 2000 and 84/2002 of 25th June 2002 ;\n“EEA State” means a State which is a Contracting Party to the EEA Agreement or Switzerland;\n“General Practice (GP) Registrar” has the meaning assigned to it in regulation 2 of the General Medical Services Regulations, regulation 2(1) of the National Health Service (General Medical Services) Regulations 1992 and regulation 2(1) of the National Health Service (General Medical Services) (Scotland) Regulations 1995, and also includes a practitioner who is being trained in general practice under an arrangement approved by the Armed Services General Practice Approval Board;\n“the General Medical Services Regulations” means the General Medical Services Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997;\n“Health and Social Services Board” includes an HSS Trust established under Article 10 of the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1991 and any person responsible for the management of a hospital which is not vested in either the Department or an HSS Trust;\n“the Joint Committee” means the Joint Committee on Postgraduate Training for General Practice;\n“Medical Directive” means Council Directive 93/16/EEC of 5th April 1993 to facilitate the free movement of doctors and the mutual recognition of their diplomas, certificates and other evidence of formal qualifications as adapted or amended by—\n(a)Annex VII to the EEA Agreement;\n(b)the Act annexed to the Treaty relating to the accession of the Kingdom of Norway, the Republic of Austria, the Republic of Finland and the Kingdom of Sweden signed at Corfu on the 24th June 1994, as adjusted by the Decision of the Council of the European Union of 1st January 1995 adjusting the instruments concerning the accession of new Member States to the European Union;\n(c)Council Directive 97/50/EC of 6th October 1997, Commission Directive 98/21/EC of 8th April 1998, Commission Directive 98/63/EC of 3rd September 1998, Commission Directive 1996/46/EC of 21st May 1999, Directive 2001/19/EC of 14th May 2001; and\n(d)the Swiss Agreement;\n“the medical list” means a list maintained under regulation 4 of the General Medical Services Regulations;\n“practitioner” means a fully registered medical practitioner except for the purposes of regulation 6(4) where it also includes a medical practitioner with limited registration under section 22 of the Medical Act 1983;\n“satisfactory completion”, in relation to the period of training in any employment has the meaning assigned to it in regulation 9(1);\n“summative assessment” has the meaning assigned to it in regulation 9(2); and\n“the Swiss Agreement” means the Agreement between the European Community and its Member States, of the one part, and the Swiss Confederation, of the other, on the free movement of persons, signed at Luxembourg on 21st June 1999.\n“trainer” has the meaning assigned to it in regulation 7(1).",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 inserted (31.12.2003) by The European Qualifications (Health Care Professions) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/3148), regs. 1(1)(c), 12(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 substituted (31.12.2003) by The European Qualifications (Health Care Professions) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/3148), regs. 1(1)(c), 12(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in operation at 30.1.1998, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 1979 No. 460"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1992/635 as amended by S.I. 1997/2468, regulation 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1995/416 as amended by S.I. 1998/4, regulation 2(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "S.R. 1997 No. 380 as amended by S.R. 1998 No. 9"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "S.I. 1991/194 (N.I. 1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "1983 c. 54 section 22 was amended by S.I. 1996/1591, regulation 6(5) and (6)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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  "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."
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