Preserved rights and transitional provisions relating to registration
3.—(1) A person, other than a national of a member State of the European Communities, registered or entitled to be registered under the Medical Act 1956 immediately before this Order has effect in right of a qualification awarded in the Republic of Ireland shall not cease to be so entitled by reason only of the repeal or modification of legislation referred to in Article 2.
(2) A person who, before the 30th April 1985, is awarded a qualification in the Republic of Ireland which but for any such repeal would have entitled him to be provisionally registered under section 17 of the Medical Act 1956 and, on satisfying the requirements of Part II of that Act as to experience, to be fully registered under section 7 thereof, shall, if he applies in accordance with paragraph (3) of this Article, be eligible for such provisional registration and subsequently for such full registration as if those sections applied to his qualifications and as if section 17(4) thereof remained in force.
(3) An application for registration or provisional registration by a person to whom paragraph (1) or (2) of this Article applies shall be made to the Registrar of the General Medical Council; the application, if for provisional registration within the said paragraph (2), shall be made not later than 30th April 1986 and, if for full registration within that paragraph, not later than 30th April 1987.