Part IIC1 Provision of Services
General medical services
C221 Requirement of suitable experience.
C31
Where the Secretary of State has made regulations for the purposes of this section, and after a day prescribed as the appointed day for those purposes—
a
the Medical Practices Committee shall refuse any application under section 20 made after that day if the medical practitioner is not suitably experienced; and
b
a Health Board shall not arrange under section 19 with a medical practitioner for him to provide general medical services for persons in its area unless the Medical Practices Committee have granted an application by him for the inclusion of his name in the list kept by the Board of medical practitioners undertaking to provide general medical services for persons in that area.
C42
For the purposes of this section a medical practitioner is “suitably experienced” if, but only if, he either—
a
has acquired the prescribed medical experience, or
b
is by virtue of regulations made under section 22 exempt from the need to have acquired that experience,
and “medical experience” includes hospital experience in any specialty.
Pt II (ss. 18-35) restricted (1.4.1998) by 1997 c. 46, s. 12(1); S.I. 1998/631, art. 2(2)(b), Sch. 2
Pt. II (ss. 18-35) power to modify conferred (1.4.1998) by 1997 c. 46, s. 15(2)(a); S.I. 1998/631, art. 2(2)(b), Sch. 2
Pt. II (ss. 18-35) power to apply conferred (1.4.1998) by 1997 c. 46, s. 15(2)(b); S.I. 1998/631, art. 2(2)(b), Sch. 2