Part I

Pilot Schemes for Primary Care

General

Medical practitioners to be suitably experienced.
11
1
Any medical practitioner who performs personal medical services in connection with the provision of such services under a pilot scheme must be suitably experienced.
2
Subsection (1) does not prevent the performance of personal medical services by—
a
a person who is acting in the course of acquiring the experience prescribed by regulations made under section 32 of the 1977 Act or section 22 of the 1978 Act;
b
a person who is provisionally registered under section 15 or 21 of the
Medical Act 1983, acting in the course of his employment in a resident medical capacity in an approved medical practice (within the meaning of section 11(4) of that Act); or
c
such other category of person as may be prescribed.
3
Sections 31(2) and 32 of the 1977 Act (meaning of “
suitably experienced
”) apply for the purposes of this section as they apply for the purposes of section 31 of that Act.
4
In its application by virtue of subsection (3), section 32 of the 1977 Act is to be read as if references to the applicant were references to a medical practitioner who is proposing to perform personal medical services in connection with the provision of such services under a pilot scheme.
5
Sections 21(2) and 22 of the 1978 Act (meaning of “
suitably experienced
”) apply for the purposes of this section as they apply for the purposes of section 21 of that Act.
6
In its application by virtue of subsection (5), section 22(2) of the 1978 Act is to be read as if references to the applicant were references to a medical practitioner who is proposing to perform personal medical services in connection with the provision of such services under a pilot scheme.
1983 c. 54.
Pt. I ceases to have effect for specified purposes (S.) (1.4.2004) by virtue of Primary Medical Services (Scotland) Act 2004 (asp 1), ss. 3, 9(1); S.S.I. 2004/58, art. 2(3)
Ss. 11-13 repealed (S.) (1.4.2004) by Primary Medical Services (Scotland) Act 2004 (asp 1), s. 9(1), sch. para. 2(5); S.S.I. 2004/58, art. 2(3)
Pt. I repealed (E.W.) (1.4.2004 for specified purposes, 1.4.2006 in so far as not already in force) by Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 (c. 43), ss. 178, 199(1)(4), Sch. 14 Pt. 4 Note (with S.I. 2004/865, arts. 1(1), 58); S.I. 2004/288, arts. 4(3)(b), 6(2)(p) (with art. 8) (as amended by S.I. 2004/866 and S.I. 2005/2925); S.I. 2004/480, art. 5(2)(p) (with arts. 6, 7) (as amended by S.I. 2004/1019 and S.I. 2006/345), S.I. 2005/2925, arts. 6(2)(b), 11, S.I. 2006/345, art. 4(2)(b)