{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medical-training-prioritisation-for-specialty-training-programmes-regulations-2026/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medical-training-prioritisation-for-specialty-training-programmes-regulations-2026/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2026/1019",
  "legislation_title": "The Medical Training (Prioritisation for Specialty Training Programmes) Regulations 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medical-training-prioritisation-for-specialty-training-programmes-regulations-2026",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Description of Persons Prioritised for Interviews",
  "text": "For the purpose of section 3(1)(d) of the Act the description of persons who must be offered interviews for a place on a UK specialty training programme before any other eligible applicants is—\n(a) a British citizen,\n(b) a Commonwealth citizen who has the right of abode in the United Kingdom under section 2 of the Immigration Act 1971,\n(c) an Irish citizen who does not require leave to enter or remain in the United Kingdom under that Act,\n(d) a person with indefinite leave to enter or remain in the United Kingdom, or\n(e) a person who has leave to enter or remain in the United Kingdom which was granted by virtue of residence scheme immigration rules within the meaning given by section 17 of the European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Act 2020.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1971 c. 77; section 2 was substituted by the British Nationality Act 1981 (c. 61), section 39(2) (with section 52(7) and Schedule 8). Subsection (2) was subsequently amended by the Immigration, Nationality and Asylum (EU Exit) Regulations S.I. 2019/745, Part 2(1), regulation 4(2)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2020 c. 1."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/1019/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:55:03.735567+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."
}