5 Visiting EEA practitioners
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.”