The European Qualifications (Health and Social Care Professions) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019

Visiting medical practitioners: saving of old law for up to one year

68.—(1) Where, immediately before exit day—

(a) a visiting practitioner was entitled under paragraph 4 (entitlement to provide occasional medical services: first year)(1) or 7 (entitlement to provide occasional medical services after first year: renewals) of Schedule 2A to the Medical Act 1983 to provide occasional medical services, or

(b) the Registrar was in receipt of the required documents (within the meaning of paragraph 5 (first provisions of services: required documents) of that Schedule) from a visiting practitioner seeking to acquire that entitlement,

any provision made by or under that Act continues to apply in relation to the visiting practitioner without the amendments that Part 1 of this Schedule makes to the provisions relating to visiting medical practitioners from relevant European States.

(2) But a visiting practitioner’s entitlement does not continue (or further continue) under paragraph 7 of Schedule 2A to the Medical Act 1983 on or after exit day (and, accordingly, the entitlement lapses at end of the period mentioned in paragraph 8(1) or (2) (duration of entitlement to provide occasional medical services) of that Schedule).

(3) The reference in sub-paragraph (1) to “the provisions relating to visiting medical practitioners from relevant European States” are to the provisions listed in the following table.

Act or instrument	Provision relating to visiting medical practitioners
Medical Act 1983	section 2(2)((d)
	section 18
	section 30(1)(d)
	section 32(5)
	section 44B(1) and (2)
	section 44C(11)
	in section 55(1), the definition of “fully registered person”
	Schedule 1, paragraph 10
	Schedule 2A
	Schedule 3A, paragraphs 1 and 2(1)(q)
Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Order of Council 2010	article 3(1)(c) and (2)
	article 7(1)(c) and (2)
General Medical Council (Form and Content of the Registers) Regulations No 2 2010	regulation 2
	regulation 4(d)
	regulation 5(f)
General Medical Council (Licence to Practise and Revalidation) Regulations 2012	regulation 3(1)
	regulation 4(2)(f)
	regulation 6(2)

(1)

Relevant amending instrument is S.I. 2016/1030.