[F117EB Application for inclusion in services listS
(1)No medical practitioner—
(a)who is a national of a member State and is registered by virtue of a qualification granted in a member State shall be entitled to have his name included in a Health Board’s services list unless he satisfies the Board that he has that knowledge of English which, in the interests of himself and his patients, is necessary for the performance of personal medical services in the Board’s area; or
(b)shall be so entitled unless he is suitably experienced.
(2)For the purposes of subsection (1)(b) a medical practitioner is “suitably experienced” if, but only if, he either—
(a)has acquired such medical experience as may be prescribed; or
(b)is by virtue of regulations made under this subsection, being regulations analogous to those made under section 22, exempt from the need to have acquired that experience,
and “medical experience” includes hospital experience in any speciality.
(3)Subsections (2) and (3) of section 22 apply in relation to regulations under subsection (2) above as they apply in relation to regulations under that section except that, for that purpose, the reference in subsection (2) of that section to the “prescribed experience" shall be construed as a reference to the medical experience prescribed by virtue of paragraph (a) of subsection (2) above.]
Textual Amendments
F1S. 17EB inserted (28.2.2003) by 2002 asp 5, ss. 18(1), 27(2); S.S.I. 2003/62, art. 2(1)(a)