Provisionally registered medical practitioners who commenced house officer training before 1st August 20072
If a person, after passing a qualifying examination, was engaged in employment in a resident medical capacity before 1st August 2007 for the purposes of obtaining a certificate under section 10 of the Medical Act 19832 (experience required for full registration by virtue of primary United Kingdom qualifications) as in force on 31st July 2007—
a
his examining body may award him a certificate under the said section 10 on or after 1st August 2007, if it would have been entitled to do so before 1st August 2007, notwithstanding the repeal of the said section 10 by virtue of article 23 of the Amending Order (accordingly, Part 2 of the Medical Act 1983 and the subordinate instruments under it, as in force on 31st July 2007, are transitionally preserved for these purposes); and
b
if as a consequence of obtaining a certificate under the said section 10—
i
by virtue of paragraph (a), or
ii
from an examining body before 1st August 2007,
a person who is not fully registered would have been entitled to be fully registered, or the General Council would have directed that he be fully registered, under the relevant section in Part 2 or 3 of the Medical Act 1983 but for the amendments made to those Parts by the Amending Order, he shall be so registered under the relevant section in those Parts, notwithstanding the amendments made by the Amending Order (accordingly, Parts 2 and 3 of the Medical act 1983 and the subordinate instruments under them, as in force on 31st July 2007, are transitionally preserved for these purposes).