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These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service (Primary Medical Services Performers Lists) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2005 and shall come into force on 1st July 2005.
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(1) Regulation 2 (interpretation) of the National Health Service (Primary Medical Services Performers Lists) (Scotland) Regulations 2004 is amended as follows.
(2) In the definition of “general medical practitioner”–
(a) in paragraph (a), omit “, otherwise than by virtue of paragraph 1(d) of Schedule 6 to that Order”;
(b) in paragraph (b)(i) before “; or” insert “or a person who has an acquired right to practise as a general medical practitioner pursuant to regulation 5(1)(d) of the Vocational Training for General Medical Practice (European Requirements) Regulations 1994”; and
(c) in paragraph (b)(ii) omit “other than by virtue of having an acquired right under paragraph 1(d) of Schedule 6 to the 2003 Order”.
(3) For the definition of “GP Registrar”, substitute–“
 “GP Registrar” means a medical practitioner who is being trained in general practice by–
(a) until the coming into force for all purposes of article 4(5)(d) of the 2003 Order, a general medical practitioner who–
(i) has been approved for that purpose by the Joint Committee on Postgraduate Training for General Practice under regulation 7 of the Vocational Training Regulations; and
(ii) performs primary medical services; and
(b) from the coming into force for all purposes of that article, a general medical practitioner who is approved under that article for the purpose of providing training under article 5(1)(c)(i) of the 2003 Order, whether as part of training leading to the award of a CCT or otherwise;”.
ANDREW P KERR
A member of the Scottish Executive
St Andrew’s House, Edinburgh
8th June 2005