The Medical Act 1983 (Approved Medical Practices and Conditions of Residence) and National Health Service (General Medical Services) (Amendment) Regulations 2000

Statutory Instruments

2000 No. 3040

MEDICAL PROFESSION, ENGLAND AND WALES

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Medical Act 1983 (Approved Medical Practices and Conditions of Residence) and National Health Service (General Medical Services) (Amendment) Regulations 2000

Made

13th November 2000

Laid before Parliament

13th November 2000

Coming into force

4th December 2000

The Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 11(3)(b) and (4) of the Medical Act 1983(1) and by sections 29 and 126(4) of the National Health Service Act 1977(2) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:—

Citation, commencement, interpretation and extent

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Medical Act 1983 (Approved Medical Practices and Conditions of Residence) and National Health Services (General Medical Services) (Amendment) Regulations 2000 and shall come into force on 4th December.

(2) In these Regulations—

“the 1992 Regulations” means the National Health Service (General Medical Services) Regulations(3);

“the 1998 Regulations” means the Medical Act 1983 (Approved Medical Practices and Conditions of Residence) and National Health Service (General Medical Services) (Amendment) Regulations 1998(4).

(3) These Regulations extend to England and Wales only.

Amendment of the 1998 Regulations

2.  The 1998 Regulations shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation—

(a) in regulation 1(2), after the words “under section 10” there shall be inserted the words “or 15A”;

(b) in regulation 2(2)(b)—

(i) after the words “for the purposes of” there shall be inserted the words “PRHO training under”;

(ii) after the words “section 10” there shall be inserted the words “or 15A”.

Amendment of the 1992 Regulations

3.  The 1992 Regulations shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation—

(a) in Schedule 2 (terms of service for doctors), in sub-paragraph (d) of paragraph 22A, after the words “under section 10” there shall be inserted the words “or 15A”;

(b) in Schedule 12 (information to be included in practice leaflets), in paragraph 21, after the words “under section 10” there shall be inserted the words “or 15A”.

Alan Milburn

The Secretary of State for Health

13th November 2000

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Medical Act 1983 (Approved Medical Practices and Conditions of Residence) and National Health Service (General Medical Services) (Amendment) Regulations 1998 to extend the definition of a pre-registration house officer to a person employed under section 15A of the Medical Act 1983. Section 15A was inserted by the Medical Act 1983 (Provisional Registration) Regulations 2000 to enable EEA nationals who have completed their theoretical medical training in an EEA State other than the UK to undertake part of their clinical experience in approved medical practices as well as in approved hospitals and institutions in the UK.

Consequential amendments are made to the National Health Service (General Medical Services) Regulations 1992.

(1)

1983 c. 54. Section 11 was amended by S.I.1996/1591, Schedule 2, paragraph 3 and by the National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997 (c. 46), section 35 and Schedule 2, paragraph 61(2).

(2)

1977 c. 49; see section 128(1) as amended by the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19) (“the 1990 Act”), section 26(2)(g) and (i), for the definitions of “prescribed” and “regulations”. Section 29 was extended by the Health and Medicines Act 1988 (c. 49), section 17; and amended by the Health Services Act 1980 (c. 53), sections 1 and 7 and Schedule 1, paragraph 42(b); by the Health and Social Services and Social Security Adjudications Act 1983 (c. 41), Schedule 6, paragraph 2; by the Medical Act 1983 (c. 54), section 56(1) and Schedule 5, paragraph 16(a); by S.I. 1985/39, article 7(3); by the Health Authorities 1995 (c. 17), Schedule 1, paragraph 18; and by the National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997 (c. 46), Schedule 2, paragraph 8. Section 126(4) was amended by the 1990 Act, section 65(2).

(3)

S.I. 1992/635 amended by S.I. 1994/3130 regulation 12(4), substituted by S.I. 1997/730 regulation 3(4), and amended by S.I. 1998/1664 regulation 4(2) and (3).

(4)

S.I. 1998/1664.