2 Registration of medical practitioners.U.K.
(1)There shall continue to be kept by the registrar of the General Council (in this Act referred to as “the Registrar”) [F1a register] of medical practitioners registered under this Act containing the names of those registered and the qualifications they are entitled to have registered under this Act.
(2)The [F2register referred to is] “the register of medical practitioners” consisting of [F3the following lists]—
(a)the principal list,
[F4(aa)if anyone is registered under section 18A, the emergency powers doctors list,]
F5(b). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(c)the visiting overseas doctors list, and
[F6(d)the list of visiting medical practitioners from relevant European States]
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(3)Medical practitioners shall be registered as fully registered medical practitioners or provisionally F8... as provided in Parts II and III of this Act and in the appropriate list of the register of medical practitioners F9... as provided in Part IV of this Act.
[F10(4)Section 35C(2)(da) (the necessary knowledge of English) shall not apply in determining whether a person’s fitness to practise is impaired for the purposes of registration under this Act.]
Textual Amendments
F1Words in s. 2(1) substituted (19.7.2006 for specified purposes, 19.10.2007 in so far as not already in force as notified in the London Gazette dated 20.7.2007) by The Medical Act 1983 (Amendment) and Miscellaneous Amendments Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/1914), art. 1(2)(b)(c)(3), 4(a) (with arts. 84, 85)
F2Words in s. 2(2) substituted (19.7.2006 for specified purposes, 19.10.2007 in so far as not already in force as notified in the London Gazette dated 20.7.2007) by The Medical Act 1983 (Amendment) and Miscellaneous Amendments Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/1914), art. 1(2)(b)(c)(3), 4(b)(i) (with arts. 84, 85)
F3Words in s. 2(2) substituted (9.7.2008) by The Health Care and Associated Professions (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/1774), art. 1(2)(b), Sch. 1 para. 2(a)
F4S. 2(2)(aa) inserted (9.7.2008) by The Health Care and Associated Professions (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/1774), art. 1(2)(b), Sch. 1 para. 2(b)
F5S. 2(2)(b) omitted (1.4.2005 as notified in the London Gazette dated 14.1.2005) by virtue of The Medical Act 1983 (Amendment) Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/3135), arts. 1(2)(3), 9(1)(b) (with Sch. 2)
F6S. 2(2)(d) substituted (3.12.2007) by The European Qualifications (Health and Social Care Professions) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/3101), regs. 1(2), 3
F7Words in s. 2(2) omitted (19.7.2006 for specified purposes, 19.10.2007 in so far as not already in force as notified in the London Gazette dated 20.7.2007) by virtue of The Medical Act 1983 (Amendment) and Miscellaneous Amendments Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/1914), art. 1(2)(b)(c)(3), 4(b)(ii) (with arts. 84, 85)
F8Words in s. 2(3) omitted (19.7.2006 for specified purposes, 19.10.2007 in so far as not already in force as notified in the London Gazette dated 20.7.2007) by virtue of The Medical Act 1983 (Amendment) and Miscellaneous Amendments Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/1914), art. 1(2)(b)(c)(3), 4(c)(i) (with arts. 84, 85)
F9Words in s. 2(3) omitted (19.7.2006 for specified purposes, 19.10.2007 in so far as not already in force as notified in the London Gazette dated 20.7.2007) by virtue of The Medical Act 1983 (Amendment) and Miscellaneous Amendments Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/1914), art. 1(2)(b)(c)(3), 4(c)(ii) (with arts. 84, 85)
F10S. 2(4) inserted (29.4.2014) by The Medical Act 1983 (Amendment) (Knowledge of English) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/1101), arts. 1(1), 2(2) (with arts. 11, 12)