The General Medical Services and Personal Medical Services Transitional and Consequential Provisions Order 2004

Transitory modification of the National Health Service (Vocational Training for General Medical Practice) Regulations 1997

118.—(1) Until their revocation by virtue of article 31(5) of, and Part 2 of Schedule 10 to the 2003 Order, the National Health Service (Vocational Training for General Medical Practice) Regulations 1997 are to have effect as if they were amended in accordance with this article.

(2) In regulation 2 (interpretation)—

(a) in the definition of “General Practice (GP) Registrar”—

(i) for sub-paragraph (a), there shall be substituted—

“(a) means a medical practitioner who is being trained in general practice by a medical practitioner who has been approved for that purpose by the JCPTGP pursuant to regulation 7;”, and

(ii) for sub-paragraph (d), there shall be substituted—

“(d) includes a practitioner who is being trained in general practice by a practitioner who performs primary medical services in connection with an agreement for primary medical services made under section 28C of the Act;”;

(b) in the definition of “medical list”, in both sub-paragraphs (a) and (b), insert after the word “list” the words “that was”;

(c) in paragraph (2)—

(i) in sub-paragraph (a) for the words “is (or if the context so requires was)” substitute “was”, and

(ii) omit the full out text at the end.

(3) Regulation 4 (experience and certificates required) shall be omitted.

(4) In regulation 5 (exemptions), in paragraph (1) for sub-paragraph (d) substitute—

“(d) if his name was, on 31st December 1994, included in a medical list for the provision of general medical services limited to—

(i) child health surveillance services only,

(ii) contraceptive services only,

(iii) maternity medical services only,

(iv) minor surgery services only, or

(v) any combination of the services mentioned in paragraphs (i) to (iv);”.