{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medical-training-prioritisation-act-2026/section-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medical-training-prioritisation-act-2026/section-5.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2026/7",
  "legislation_title": "Medical Training (Prioritisation) Act 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medical-training-prioritisation-act-2026",
  "path": "section/5",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "“UK Foundation Programme”, “UK specialty training programme” etc",
  "text": "(1) The following definitions have effect for the purposes of sections 1 to 3.\n(2) “UK Foundation Programme” means—\n(a) an acceptable programme for provisionally registered doctors within the meaning of the Medical Act 1983 (see section 10A of that Act), or\n(b) a programme that is designed to follow on from an acceptable programme for provisionally registered doctors, which lasts for up to a year and which is used primarily for the training of newly registered doctors.\n(3) In subsection (2), “newly registered doctor” means a person who has been registered as a fully registered medical practitioner under section 3 of the Medical Act 1983 within the previous six months.\n(4) “UK specialty training programme” means a programme of training required for or leading towards the award of a certificate of completion of training under section 34L of the Medical Act 1983 but does not include—\n(a) a UK Foundation Programme,\n(b) a programme wholly in the area of public health,\n(c) a programme for which the majority of training takes place outside the United Kingdom, or\n(d) a programme described or specified in regulations made by the appropriate authority.\n(5) “Relevant qualifying UK programme”, in relation to an applicant for a UK specialty training programme, means—\n(a) where their application is for the first or only stage of a UK specialty training programme, a UK Foundation Programme;\n(b) in any other case, the previous stage of the UK specialty training programme or a UK Foundation Programme.\n(6) “Eligible applicant”, in relation to a training programme, means an applicant who meets the eligibility criteria for the programme.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 5 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 8(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 5 in force at 6.3.2026 by S.I. 2026/221, reg. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2026/7/section/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:42:28.420533+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."
}