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SCHEDULE 5OTHER CONTRACTUAL TERMS

PART 4Persons who perform services

Qualifications of performers

46.—(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), no medical practitioner shall perform medical services under the contract unless the practitioner is—

(a)included in the primary medical services performers' list for the Health Board which is under a duty to provide or secure the provision of the service to be performed;

(b)not suspended from that list or from the Medical Register; and

(c)not subject to interim suspension under section 41A of the Medical Act 1983 (interim orders)(1).

(2) Sub-paragraph (1) (a) shall not apply in the case of—

(a)a medical practitioner employed in Scotland, by a Health Board, in England and Wales, by a NHS trust, a NHS foundation trust, or, in Northern Ireland, by a Health and Social Services trust who is providing services other than primary medical services at the practice premises;

(b)a person who is provisionally registered under section 15 (provisional registration), 15A (provisional registration for EEA nationals) or 21 (provisional registration) of the Medical Act 1983(2) acting in the course of the person’s employment in a resident medical capacity in an approved medical practice; or

(c)a GP Registrar during the first two months of the GP Registrar’s training period.

(1)

1983 c. 54. Section 41A was inserted by S.I. 2000/1803.

(2)

Section 15 was amended by the National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997 (c. 46) (“the 1997 Act”), Schedule 1, Part 1, paragraph 61(9); section 15A was inserted by S.I. 2000/3041; section 21 was amended by the 1997 Act, Schedule 1, Part 1, paragraph 61(5) and by S.I. 1996/1591 and 2002/3135.