5. In section 14 (alternative requirements as to experience in certain cases)(1), at the end insert—
“(4) Subsection (5) applies if—
(a)a person within subsection (2)(b) who is a national of a relevant European State makes an application under subsection (1); and
(b)the person has carried out a professional traineeship, all or part of which was carried out in a third country.
(5) The General Council must take the professional traineeship into account in exercising its functions under subsection (1).
(6) The General Council must publish guidelines on the organisation and recognition of professional traineeships carried out in third countries (including, in particular, guidelines on the role of the supervisor of the professional traineeship).
(7) Any person who—
(a)is not a national of a relevant European State; but
(b)is, by virtue of any enforceable EU right, entitled to be treated, for the purposes of access to and the practice of the medical profession, no less favourably than a national of such a State,
must be treated for the purposes of subsections (4) and (5) as if the person were such a national.”.
Section 14 was amended by S.I. 1996/1591, 2006/1914 and 2007/3101.