Medical Act 1983

18 Visiting EEC practitioners

(1) If he complies with the requirements of this section it shall be lawful for a person who is a national of any member State of the Communities and lawfully established in medical practice in a member State of the Communities other than the United Kingdom on visiting the United Kingdom to render medical services there temporarily without first being registered under the foregoing provisions of this Part or under Part III of this Act.

(2) Such a person intending so to render services shall provide the Registrar with—

(a) a declaration in writing giving particulars of the services to be rendered and the period or periods in which he expects to render them ; and

(b) a certificate or certificates issued by the competent authority or body and bearing a date not less recent than 12 months prior to the date on which it is provided, which shows—

(i) that he is lawfully practising medicine in a member State other than the United Kingdom, and

(ii) that he holds medical qualifications which member States are required by the first Medical Directive to recognise;

and for the purposes of this subsection " the competent authority or body " means the authority or body designated by the member State concerned as competent for the purposes of Article 16(3) of that Directive.

(3) In an urgent case the declaration to be provided under paragraph (a) of subsection (2) above may be provided after the services have been rendered, but where it is so provided it shall be provided as soon as possible thereafter and in any event not more than 15 days after the date on which the practitioner first rendered such services.

(4) Where a person complies with the requirements of subsection (2) above, the Registrar shall register him under this section in the register of medical practitioners as a visiting EEC practitioner for such period or periods as, having regard to the particulars given in the declaration referred to in subsection (2)(a) above, he considers appropriate.

(5) Registration of a person as a visiting EEC practitioner shall cease if—

(a) he becomes established in medical practice in the United Kingdom; or

(b) he renders, save in a case of urgency, medical services in the United Kingdom otherwise than in accordance with a declaration made by him under subsection (2)(a) above.