{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-performers-lists-amendment-regulations-2010/regulation-6",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2010/412",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Performers Lists) Amendment Regulations 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-performers-lists-amendment-regulations-2010",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Amendment of regulation 21",
  "text": "In regulation 21(2) (medical performers lists: interpretation), insert in the appropriate places the following definitions—\n““emergency registered practitioner” means a medical practitioner—\n(a) who is registered as a registered medical practitioner pursuant to section 18A of the Medical Act (temporary registration with regard to emergencies involving loss of human life or human illness etc.);\n(b) whose name, within the period of five years prior to being so registered, had been included on a medical performers list; and\n(c) whose name was subsequently removed from that or another medical performers list—\n(i) on the ground referred to in regulation 10(6); or\n(ii) on some other ground unconnected with impairment of fitness to practise (for these purposes, impairment is construed in accordance with section 35C(2) of the Medical Act (functions of the Investigation Committee));”;\n““period of emergency” means the period—\n(a) beginning when the Secretary of State advises the Registrar of the General Medical Council (“the Registrar”) that an emergency of the type described in section 19(1)(a) of the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 (meaning of “emergency”), read with subsection (2)(a) and (b) of that section, has occurred, is occurring or is about to occur;\n(b) ending when the Secretary of State advises the Registrar that the circumstances that led to the Secretary of State to advise the Registrar as mentioned in sub-paragraph (a) no longer exist;”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The “Medical Act”, as defined in the regulations, is the Medical Act 1983 (c.54). Section 18A is inserted by S.I.2008/1774."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 35C is substituted by S.I.2002/3135 and amended by S.I.2006/1914, 2008/1774 and 3131 and the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (c.14), section 99 and Schedule 7, Part 1, paragraph 6. The last three mentioned amendments are not yet in force."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "2004 c.36."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/412/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:52:04.684326+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."
}