The Health and Personal Social Services (Primary Medical Services Performers Lists) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010

Interpretation

3.  In regulation 2 of the principal Regulations (Interpretation)—

(a) after the definition of “disqualification” insert—

““emergency registered practitioner” means a medical practitioner—

(a)

who is registered as a registered medical practitioner pursuant to section 18A of the Medical Act(1) (temporary registration with regard to emergencies involving loss of human life or human illness etc.);

(b)

whose name, within the period of five years prior to being so registered, had been included on the primary medical services performers list; and

(c)

whose name was subsequently removed from the primary medical services performers list—

(i)

on the ground referred to in regulation 10(1); or

(ii)

on some other ground unconnected with impairment of fitness to practise (for these purposes, impairment is construed in accordance with section 35C(2)(2) of the Medical Act (functions of the Investigation Committee)”;

(b) after the definition of “performer” insert—

““period of emergency” means the period—

(a)

beginning when the Secretary of State advises the Registrar of the General Medical Council (the Registrar”) that an emergency of the type described in section 19(1)(a) of the Civil Contingencies Act 2004(3) (meaning of emergency), read with subsection (2)(a) and (b) of that section has occurred, is occurring or is about to occur;

(b)

ending when the Secretary of State advises the Registrar that the circumstances that led to the Secretary of State to advise the Registrar as mentioned in paragraph (a) no longer exist.”.

(1)

1983 c.54. Section 18A was inserted by paragraph 10 of Schedule 1 to S.I.2008/1774

(2)

Section 35C is substituted by S.I.2002/3135

(3)

2004 c.36