PART II

Provision of Services

General medical services

Requirement of suitable experience
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1
Where the Secretary of State has made regulations for the purposes of this section, and after a day prescribed as the appointed day for those purposes—
a
the Medical Practices Committee shall refuse any application under section 20 made after that day if the medical practitioner is not suitably experienced; and
b
a Health Board shall not arrange under section 19 with a medical practitioner for him to provide general medical services for persons in its area unless the Medical Practices Committee have granted an application by him for the inclusion of his name in the list kept by the Board of medical practitioners undertaking to provide general medical services for persons in that area.
2
For the purposes of this section a medical practitioner is " suitably experienced " if, but only if, he either—
a
has acquired the prescribed medical experience, or
b
is by virtue of regulations made under section 22 exempt from the need to have acquired that experience,
and " medical experience " includes hospital experience in any specialty.