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

Amendment of regulation 4 of the GMS Contracts Regulations

3.  In regulation 4 (conditions relating solely to medical practitioners) of the GMS Contracts Regulations, add –

“(4) In paragraph (1), (2)(a) and (3)(a), “general medical practitioner” does not include –

(a) from the coming into operation of Article 10 of the 2003 Order, a medical practitioner whose name is included in the General Practitioner Register by virtue of –

(i) paragraph 1(a) of Schedule 6 to that Order by virtue of his having been a restricted services principal included in a list specified in that paragraph,

(ii) paragraph 1(d) of that Schedule, or

(iii) Article 11(2) of that Order because of an exemption under regulation 5(1)(d) of the regulations specified in paragraph (5);

(b) until the coming into operation of Article 10 of the 2003 Order, a medical practitioner who either –

(i) until the coming into operation of paragraph 22 of Schedule 8 to that Order –

(aa) has an acquired right to practise as a general medical practitioner pursuant to regulation 5(1)(a) of the Vocational Training for General Medical Practice (European Requirements) Regulations 1994(1) only by virtue of having been a restricted services principal included in a list specified in that paragraph, or regulation 5(1)(d) of those Regulations; or

(bb) is exempt from the need to be suitably experienced by virtue of regulation 5(1)(d) of the regulations specified in paragraph (5), or

(ii) upon the coming into operation of that paragraph of that Schedule to that Order, is an eligible general practitioner pursuant to that paragraph by virtue of an acquired right under the provisions listed in sub-paragraph (a)(i) to (iii).

(5) The regulations referred to in paragraph (4)(a)(iii) and (b)(i)(bb) are the Medical Practitioners (Vocational Training) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998, the National Health Service (Vocational Training for General Medical Practice) Regulations 1997, and the National Health Service (Vocational Training for General Medical Practice) (Scotland) Regulations 1998.

(6) In paragraph (4), “restricted services principal” has the same meaning as in the 2003 Order(2).”.

(1)

S.I. 1994/3130 as amended by S.I. 1997/2817 and 2003/3148. The whole Regulations are prospectively revoked by S.I. 2003/1250, Article 31(5) and Part 2 of Schedule 10

(2)

The definition of “restricted services principal” was substituted, for England, by S.I. 2004/865 and, for Scotland, by S.I. 2004/2261