Medical Practitioners (Vocational Training) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998

Interpretation

2.—(1) In these Regulations—

“the 1978 Order” means the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1978;

“appeal body” means the body appointed by the Department under regulation 14;

“certificate of prescribed experience” means a certificate issued pursuant to regulation 10 and, for the purposes of regulation 4 includes a certificate of prescribed experience issued under the Medical Practitioners (Vocational Training) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1979(1);

“certificate of equivalent experience” means a certificate issued pursuant to regulation 12 and, for the purposes of regulation 4, includes a certificate of equivalent experience issued under the Medical Practitioners (Vocational Training) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1979;

“General Practice (GP) Registrar” has the meaning assigned to it in regulation 2 of the General Medical Services Regulations, regulation 2(1) of the National Health Service (General Medical Services) Regulations 1992(2) and regulation 2(1) of the National Health Service (General Medical Services) (Scotland) Regulations 1995(3), and also includes a practitioner who is being trained in general practice under an arrangement approved by the Armed Services General Practice Approval Board;

“the General Medical Services Regulations” means the General Medical Services Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997(4);

“Health and Social Services Board” includes an HSS Trust established under Article 10 of the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1991(5) and any person responsible for the management of a hospital which is not vested in either the Department or an HSS Trust;

“the Joint Committee” means the Joint Committee on Postgraduate Training for General Practice;

“Medical Directive” means Council Directive 93/16/EEC of 5 April 1993 to facilitate the free movement of doctors and the mutual recognition of their diplomas, certificates and other evidence of formal qualifications(6), as amended by Council Directive 97/50/EC of 6th October 1997(7);

“the medical list” means a list maintained under regulation 4 of the General Medical Services Regulations;

“practitioner” means a fully registered medical practitioner except for the purposes of regulation 6(4) where it also includes a medical practitioner with limited registration under section 22 of the Medical Act 1983(8);

“satisfactory completion”, in relation to the period of training in any employment has the meaning assigned to it in regulation 9(1);

“summative assessment” has the meaning assigned to it in regulation 9(2); and

“trainer” has the meaning assigned to it in regulation 7(1).

(1)

S.R. 1979 No. 460

(2)

S.I. 1992/635 as amended by S.I. 1997/2468, regulation 3

(3)

S.I. 1995/416 as amended by S.I. 1998/4, regulation 2(2)

(4)

S.R. 1997 No. 380 as amended by S.R. 1998 No. 9

(5)

S.I. 1991/194 (N.I. 1)

(6)

O.J. No. L165, 7.7.93, p. 1

(7)

O.J. No. L921, 24.10.97, p. 35

(8)

1983 c. 54 section 22 was amended by S.I. 1996/1591, regulation 6(5) and (6)