Regulation 2 Amendment of the National Health Service (Vocational Training) Regulations 1979

In the National Health Service (Vocational Training) Regulations 1979^f1, in regulation 2(1) (interpretation), for the definition of “trainee general practitioner” there shall be substituted the following definition—

““trainee general practitioner”—

(a)

means a “General Practice (GP) Registrar”, as defined in regulations made under section 29 of the Act^f2;

(b)

in relation to Scotland and Northern Ireland, has the meaning assigned to it in regulations made, respectively, under section 19 of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978^f3 and article 56 of the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1972^f4; and

(c)

includes a practitioner who is being trained in general practice under an arrangement approved by the Armed Services General Practice Approval Board;”.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: S.I. 1979/1644, to which there have been amendments which are not relevant to these Regulations.
f2: See S.I. 1992/635, amended by S.I. 1997/2468, regulation 3.
f3: 1978 c. 29. Section 19 was amended by the Health Services Act 1980 (c. 53), section 7, by the Health and Social Services and Social Security Adjudications Act 1983 (c. 41), Schedule 7, paragraph 2, by the Medical Act 1983 (c. 54), Schedule 5, paragraph 17(a) and by the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19), section 37; and is to be read with the Health and Medicines Act 1988 (c. 49), section 17.
f4: S.I. 1972/1265 (N.I. 14).