Part IGeneral
Experience and certificates required4.
(1)
Subject to paragraph (2), a Health and Social Services Board shall not arrange under Article 56 of the principal Order with a practitioner for him to provide general medical services for persons in its area unless he is suitably experienced within the meaning of Article 8(2) of the 1978 Order.
(2)
A practitioner who, in pursuance of Article 56 of the principal Order, applies to a Health and Social Services Board to be included in the medical list shall produce evidence that he is suitably experienced.
(3)
The written evidence required to be produced pursuant to paragraph (2) shall be in the form of—
(a)
a certificate of prescribed experience; or
(b)
a certificate of equivalent experience; or
(c)
a statement of the grounds (with evidence in support thereof) upon which the practitioner claims exemption from the need to have the prescribed experience by virtue of regulation 5.