http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/3101/regulation/28The European Qualifications (Health and Social Care Professions) Regulations 2007texttext/xmlenStatute Law DatabaseHEALTH CARE AND ASSOCIATED PROFESSIONS2019-09-05Expert Participation2012-09-01 These Regulations, which are made under powers contained in the European Communities Act 1972, implement, in part, Directive 2005/36/EC (“the Directive”) which concerns the recognition of professional qualifications. The essential aim of the Directive is to facilitate the free movement of persons between member States of the European Community, by setting out principles and procedures which member States are to apply in determining the rights of migrants to pursue professions which require professional qualifications. PART 2MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS: MEDICAL ACT 1983Insertion of section 49B28In Part VII (miscellaneous and general), before section 50 insert—The Directive: designation of competent authority etc.49B1The General Council is designated as the competent authority in the United Kingdom for the purposes of the Directive so far as relating to the medical profession.2The designation under subsection (1)—adoes not extend to matters relating to training to be, or qualifications or practice as, a general practitioner or a specialist medical practitioner;bdoes not extend to the awarding of primary United Kingdom qualifications.3Accordingly, the General Council shall in the United Kingdom carry out (in particular) the functions specified in Schedule 4A so far as those functions relate to matters other than specialist matters (as respects those functions so far as relating to specialist matters, see article 19 of the General and Specialist Medical Practice (Education, Training and Qualifications) Order (S.I. 2003/1250)); and for this purpose each of the following is a “specialist matter”—atraining to be a general practitioner or specialist medical practitioner;bqualifications as such a practitioner;cpractice as such a practitioner.4The bodies and combinations of bodies specified in section 4(2) are designated as competent authorities in the United Kingdom for the purposes of awarding primary United Kingdom qualifications.5Subject to subsection (6), the Secretary of State may give directions to the General Council in connection with their functions specified in Schedule 4A, and it shall be the duty of the General Council to comply with any such directions.6Directions given under subsection (5) may be as to matters of administration only.7In Schedule 4A, “non-UK medical qualification” means a medical qualification that is awarded to a person by a competent authority of a relevant European State other than the United Kingdom..
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