{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/vocational-training-for-general-medical-practice-european-requirements-regulations-1994/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/vocational-training-for-general-medical-practice-european-requirements-regulations-1994/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1994/3130",
  "legislation_title": "The Vocational Training for General Medical Practice (European Requirements) Regulations 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/vocational-training-for-general-medical-practice-european-requirements-regulations-1994",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Vocational training certificate",
  "text": "For the purposes of article 30 of the Medical Directive (which requires member States to institute specific training in general medical practice), the vocational training certificates issued in the United Kingdom are —\n(a) a certificate of prescribed experience issued by the JCPTGP in connection with training completed after 31st December 1994 under —\n(i) regulation 6 (certificate of prescribed experience) or 10 (procedure on appeal) of the 1979 Regulations or of the 1980 Regulations, or\n(ii) regulation 5 (certificate of prescribed experience) or 9 (procedure on appeal) of the 1979 Northern Ireland Regulations;\n(b) a certificate of equivalent experience, annotated to the effect that the medical experience in respect of which the certificate was issued complied with all the requirements of the Medical Directive relating to specific training in general medical practice, issued by the JCPTGP in connection with training completed after 31st December 1994 under —\n(i) regulation 7 (certificate of equivalent experience) or 10 (procedure on appeal) of the 1979 Regulations or of the 1980 Regulations, or\n(ii) regulation 6 (certificate of equivalent experience) or 9 (procedure on appeal) of the 1979 Northern Ireland Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/3130/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:21:17.150595+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."
}