The Health and Personal Social Services (General Medical Services Contracts) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005

Amendment of Schedule 1 of the Primary Medical Services Performers Lists Regulations

13.  In Schedule 1 paragraph 4 shall be substituted as follows –

“4.   The events to which this paragraph applies are –

(a) the conclusion of any period of training prescribed by regulation 6(3) of the Vocational Training Regulations or after the coming into operation of Articles 4 and 5 of the 2003 Order, any period of general practice training required pursuant to those Articles, unless –

(i) it forms part of a vocational training scheme which has not yet been concluded, or

(ii) the GP Registrar provides the Board with –

(aa) a certificate of prescribed experience under regulation 10 of the Vocational Training Regulations,

(bb) a certificate of equivalent experience under regulation 12 of those regulations, or

(cc) after the coming into operation of Article 10 of the 2003 Order, evidence of the applicants inclusion in the GP Register;

(b) the failure satisfactorily to complete any period of training within the meaning of regulation 9 of the Vocational Training Regulations or after the coming into operation of Articles 4 and 5 of the 2003 Order, of general practice training within the meaning of those Articles; and

(c) the completion of a vocational training scheme, unless the GP Registrar provides the Board with –

(i) a certificate of prescribed experience under regulation 10 of the Vocational Training Regulations,

(ii) a certificate of equivalent experience under regulation 12 of those regulations, or

(iii) after the coming into operation of Article 10 of the 2003 Order, evidence of the GP registrar’s inclusion in the GP Register.”