PART 2MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS: MEDICAL ACT 1983
Insertion of section 14A8
After section 14 insert—
14AFull registration of EEA nationals etc without certain acquired rights certificates
1
A person who is a national of a relevant European State—
a
whose case falls within regulation 3(9)(a) of the General Systems Regulations,
b
to whom regulations 20 to 26 of those Regulations apply by reason of the operation of regulation 3(4) of those Regulations,
c
who is permitted to pursue the profession of medical practitioner in the United Kingdom by virtue of Part 3 of those Regulations (having, in particular, successfully completed any adaptation period, or passed any aptitude test, that he may be required to undertake pursuant to that Part of those Regulations), and
d
whose fitness to practise is not impaired,
is entitled to be registered under this section as a fully registered medical practitioner.
2
Any person who—
a
is not a national of a relevant European State; but
b
is, by virtue of any enforceable Community right, entitled to be treated, for the purposes of access to the medical profession, no less favourably than a national of such a State,
shall be treated for the purposes of subsection (1) as if he were such a national.