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The Postgraduate Medical Education and Training (Amendment) Order of Council 2016

S.I. 2016/198 · Made 15 February 2016

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Health Care And Associated Professions

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Made 15th February 2016

Laid before Parliament 23rd February 2016

Coming into force 1st April 2016

At the Council Chamber, Whitehall the 15th day of February 2016

By the Lords of Her Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council

Their Lordships make the following Order in exercise of powers conferred by sections 34D(3) and 34K(1)(c) of the Medical Act 1983f1.

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

1983 c. 54. Sections 34D and 34K were inserted by 2010/234, article 4 and Schedule 1, paragraph 10.

Contents

  1. 1Citation and commencement
  2. 2Amendment
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1Citation and commencement

This Order may be cited as the Postgraduate Medical Education and Training (Amendment) Order of Council 2016 and comes into force on 1st day of April 2016.

2Amendment

In Part 2 of the Schedule to the Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Order of Council 2010f1 (recognised specialties within the United Kingdom), at the appropriate place in the alphabetical order insert “Aviation and space medicine”.

Signature

Ceri King

Deputy Clerk of the Privy Council

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Schedule to the Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Order of Council 2010 (“the 2010 Order”) (S.I.2010/473). That Schedule lists the specialties recognised in the United Kingdom.

Article 2 amends Part 2 (specialties for which there is a minimum training period of four years) of the Schedule to the 2010 Order by adding an entry for “Aviation and space medicine”.