Medical Act 1983

17 Primary qualifications obtained in other member States of the Communities

(1) A primary European qualification for the purposes of this Part of this Act is—

(a) any European qualification listed in Schedule 2 to this Act which is acquired in a member State of the Communities on or after the date on which it implemented the second Medical Directive and is not evidence of training commenced by the holder before that date;

(b) subject to compliance with subsection (2) below, any qualification obtained in a member State of the Communities before the date on which it implemented the second Medical Directive or on or after that date where training of which that qualification is evidence commenced before that date.

(2) For compliance with this subsection in the case of any qualifications, either—

(a) they must be such that the Registrar is satisfied with respect to them (by means of a certificate of the medical authorities of the member State of the Communities in which they were acquired or otherwise) that they accord with the standards laid down by the second Medical Directive; o\

(b) evidence of them must be accompanied by a certificate of the medical authorities of any member State of the Communities that the holder has lawfully been engaged in actual medical practice for at least 3 consecutive years during the 5 years preceding the date of the certificate.

(3) In subsection (2) above, references to the medical authorities of a member State of the Communities are references to the authorities and bodies designated in accordance with the first Medical Directive or the second Medical Directive.

(4) In this Act—

• "the first Medical Directive" means Council Directive No. 75/362/EEC concerning the mutual recognition of diplomas, certificates and other evidence of formal qualifications in medicine, and

• " the second Medical Directive " means Council Directive No. 75/363/EEC concerning the co-ordination of provisions in respect of activities of doctors;

and for the purposes of subsection (1) above a member State is to be regarded as having implemented the second Medical Directive on the date notified to the Commission of the European Communities as that on which it did so.