The European Primary Medical Qualifications Regulations 1996

Visiting EEA practitioners

5.—(1) In subsection (1) of section 18 of the Act (visiting EEA practitioners)—

(a) for “any member State of the Communities” there is substituted “any EEA State”; and

(b) for “a member State of the Communities” there is substituted “an EEA State”.

(2) In subsection (2) of that section—

(a) for “a member State” there is substituted “an EEA State”;

(b) for “member States” there is substituted “EEA States”;

(c) for “the first Medical Directive” there is substituted “Directive 93/16/EEC”;

(d) for “the member State” there is substituted “the EEA State”; and

(e) for “Article 16(3)” there is substituted “Article 17(3)”.

(3) In subsection (3) of that section—

(a) for “declaration to be provided under paragraph (a) of” there is substituted “documents to be provided under”; and

(b) for “it is so provided it shall” there is substituted “they are so provided they shall”.

(4) In each of subsections (4) and (5) of that section, for “EEC practitioner” there is substituted“EEA practitioner”.

(5) After subsection (5) of that section there is inserted—

“(6) Any person who—

(a) is not a national of an EEA State; but

(b) is, by virtue of a right conferred by article 11 of Regulation (EEC) No. 1612/68, or any other enforceable Community right, entitled to be treated, for the purposes of access to the medical profession, no less favourably than a national of such a State,

shall be treated for the purposes of this section as if he were such a national.”