{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/recognition-of-professional-qualifications-and-implementation-of-international-recognition-agreements-amendment-regulations-2023/schedule-3/paragraph-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/recognition-of-professional-qualifications-and-implementation-of-international-recognition-agreements-amendment-regulations-2023/schedule-3/paragraph-15.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2023/1286",
  "legislation_title": "The Recognition of Professional Qualifications and Implementation of International Recognition Agreements (Amendment) Regulations 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/recognition-of-professional-qualifications-and-implementation-of-international-recognition-agreements-amendment-regulations-2023",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/15",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Amendments to the Medical Act 1983",
  "text": "In section 55 (interpretation), in subsection (1), at the appropriate places, insert—\n““adaptation period” means a period of practice, subject to an assessment and, where necessary, accompanied by further training, which is supervised by a fully registered medical practitioner;”;\n““aptitude test” means an assessment, with the aim of determining whether a specified state professional has the knowledge, skills and experience that the General Council consider to be required for practising as a fully registered medical practitioner;”;\n““specified state professional” means a person who holds a specified state qualification;”;\n““specified state qualification” means a medical qualification granted in one of the states specified in Schedule 1 to the Recognition of Professional Qualifications and Implementation of International Recognition Agreements (Amendment) Regulations 2023;”.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 3 para. 15 in force at 1.12.2023, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 55 was renumbered as section 55(1) by S.I. 1996/1591, and amended by paragraph 23 of Schedule 19 to the Data Protection Act 2018 (c. 12) and S.I. 1996/1591, 2002/3135, 2006/1914, 2007/3101, 2008/1774, 2010/234, 2014/1101, 2015/794, 2016/1030, 2019/419 and 593. There are other amendments to section 55 but none is relevant to these Regulations."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2023/1286/schedule/3/paragraph/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:37:53.365139+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."
}