Part II U.K. Medical Education and Registration: Persons Qualifying in the United Kingdom and Elsewhere in the EEC.

[F1 3 Registration by virtue of primary United Kingdom or primary European qualifications. U.K.

(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act any person who—

(a) holds one or more primary United Kingdom qualifications and has passed a qualifying examination and satisfies the requirements of this Part of this Act as to experience; or

(b) being a national of any EEA State, holds one or more primary European qualifications,

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

(2) Any person who—

(a) is not a national of an EEA State; but

(b) is, by virtue of a right conferred by article 11 of Regulation (EEC) No. 1612/68 M1 , or any other enforceable Community right, entitled to be treated, for the purposes of access to the medical profession, no less favourably than a national of such a State,

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

(3) In this Act—

• “the EEA Agreement” means the Agreement on the European Economic Area signed at Oporto on 2nd May 1992 as adjusted by the Protocol signed at Brussels on 17th March 1993;

• “EEA State” means a State which is a contracting party to the EEA Agreement.]

Textual Amendments

F1 S. 3 substituted (10.7.1996) by S.I. 1996/1591, reg. 3(1)

Marginal Citations

M1 The reference for Regulation (EEC) 1612/68 is OJ No L257, 19.10.68, p.1.