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3 Registration by virtue of primary United Kingdom or primary European qualifications.U.K.

(1)Subject to the provisions of this Act any person [F1whose fitness to practise is not impaired and] who—

[F2(a)holds one or more primary United Kingdom qualifications and has satisfactorily completed an acceptable programme for provisionally registered doctors; or]

(b)being a national of [F3any relevant European State], holds one or more primary European qualifications [F4and has made an application, before IP completion day, for registration under this paragraph or is provisionally registered under section 15A],

is entitled to be registered under this section as a fully registered medical practitioner.

(2)Any person who—

(a)is not a national of [F5a relevant European State]; but

[F6(b)is, by virtue of an enforceable [F7EU] right, entitled to be treated, for the purposes of access to and pursuit of the medical profession, no less favourably than a national of a relevant European State,]

shall be treated for the purposes of subsection (1)(b) above as if he were such a national.

F8(3). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

F1Words in s. 3(1) inserted (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), arts. 1(2)(b)(c)(3), 45

F2S. 3(1)(a) substituted (19.7.2006 for specified purposes, 1.8.2007 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), 20

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