The General and Specialist Medical Practice (Education, Training and Qualifications) Order 2003

General practitioners

5.  Where a person has applied to the JCPTGP for a certificate of equivalent experience or a certificate of prescribed experience before the relevant date, but the application has not been determined before that date—

(a) the Board shall determine that application in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Vocational Training Regulations, the Vocational Training Regulations (Scotland) or the Vocational Training Regulations (Northern Ireland) (as appropriate);

(b) the time limit specified in regulation 12A of each of those Regulations (decisions relating to certificates of equivalent experience in respect of persons exercising a Community right) shall apply (where applicable), and the period of three months specified in regulation 12A(4) shall begin with the date on which the JCPTGP or, as the case may be, the Board received the application together with full supporting documentation; and

(c) any appeal against a refusal of a certificate shall be made and determined in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Regulations specified in sub-paragraph (a) (including an appeal against a failure to notify the applicant of a decision within the time limit specified in regulation 12A),

save that nothing in this paragraph shall prevent such a person from withdrawing any such application and making a new application to the Board for a CCT pursuant to the provisions of this Order, or for a statement of eligibility for registration pursuant to article 11(3) (as the case may be).