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(1)The General Council shall keep a register of specialist medical practitioners (known as “the Specialist Register”).
(2)The Specialist Register shall, subject to subsections (4) and (5), contain the names of—
(a)registered medical practitioners who hold a CCT in a recognised specialty;
(b)registered medical practitioners who are eligible to be admitted to that register in accordance with the scheme mentioned in subsection (6); and
(c)registered medical practitioners falling within such other categories as the Privy Council may by order specify.
(3)The Privy Council may by order designate specialties as recognised specialties.
(4)A person falling within any of paragraphs (a) to (c) of subsection (2) shall only be included in the Specialist Register if they have applied to the Registrar for the purpose and have paid any fee specified in regulations under section 34O.
F2(5). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(6)The scheme referred to in subsection (2)(b) is a scheme published by the General Council for the inclusion in the Specialist Register of persons who, immediately before 1st January 1997, were either NHS consultants or consultants in a medical specialty in the armed forces.
(7)That scheme shall make provision—
(a)as to the criteria to be considered in determining whether to include a person's name in the Specialist Register; and
(b)excluding any person whose name has been removed from the Specialist Register under regulations made by virtue of subsection (2A) of section 29B (grant, refusal and withdrawal of licences to practise).
(8)In subsection (6), “armed forces” means the naval, military or air forces of the Crown and includes the reserve forces within the meaning of section 1(2) of the Reserve Forces Act 1996.
(9)The Specialist Register shall indicate—
(a)the specialty in respect of which a person's name is included in that register; and
(b)the name, or a description of, any field within that specialty which a person has requested, subject to subsection (10), to be indicated in that register.
(10)In order to have the relevant field indicated on the Specialist Register in accordance with subsection (9)(b), the Registrar must be satisfied that a person has completed satisfactorily—
(a)sub-specialty training in the United Kingdom which is approved by the General Council; or
(b)sub-specialty training outside the United Kingdom that the Registrar is satisfied is equivalent to sub-specialty training approved by the General Council.]
Textual Amendments
F1Pt. 4A inserted (11.2.2010 for specified purposes, 1.4.2010 in so far as not already in force) by The General and Specialist Medical Practice (Education, Training and Qualifications) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/234), art. 1(3)(4), Sch. 1 para. 10; S.I. 2010/478, art. 2(b)
F2S. 34D(5) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The European Qualifications (Health and Social Care Professions) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/593), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 19 (with reg. 12A, Sch. 1 Pt. 2) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1394, regs. 4, 9); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
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