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The General and Specialist Medical Practice (Education, Training and Qualifications) Order 2003

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The Specialist Register

13.—(1) The GMC shall keep a register of specialists (“the Specialist Register”).

(2) Subject to paragraph (3), the Specialist Register shall contain the names of—

(a)persons who hold a CCT in a specialty listed in Schedule 3 awarded by the Board; and

(b)other eligible specialists as specified in article 14.

(3) A person is entitled to have his name included in the Specialist Register if he applies to the Registrar of the GMC for the purpose, paying any fee specified by the GMC in rules, and satisfies the Registrar—

(a)of his entitlement by virtue of paragraph (2); and

(b)that he is a registered medical practitioner and, in the case of an oral and maxillo-facial surgeon, that he is also a registered dentist.

(4) The Specialist Register shall indicate—

(a)the specialty in respect of which each person’s name is included in the register; and

(b)subject to paragraph (5), where the Board is satisfied that he has a particular expertise in a field within that specialty and he so requests in his application under paragraph (3) or subsequently, the name or a description of that field.

(5) In order to satisfy the Board that he has a particular expertise in a field such that he is entitled to have that expertise indicated in the register under paragraph (4)(b), the person must satisfy the Board that he has satisfactorily completed—

(a)sub-specialty training in the United Kingdom that is approved by the Board; or

(b)any other sub-specialty training outside the United Kingdom that the Board is satisfied is equivalent to sub-specialty training approved by the Board.

(6) Subject to paragraph (7), a person may not take up appointment to any post as a consultant in the National Health Service in a specialty, or any more specialised field within such a specialty, unless his name is included in the Specialist Register.

(7) Paragraph (6) does not apply to any person who held a post as a consultant in oral and maxillo-facial surgery in the National Health Service immediately before 1st January 1997.

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