Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Act 2023

Amendment of section 88 of Act of 2020

13. (1) Section 88 of the Act of 2020, insofar as that section relates to the insertion of section 36D of the Act of 2007, is amended—

(a) by the renumbering of the said section 36D as subsection (1) of that section,

(b) by the substitution of the following paragraph for paragraph (a) of the said section 36D:

“(a) has been awarded a degree in consequence of the completion, wholly or mainly in the State, of a programme of medical education and training approved under section 88(2)(a)(i)(I),”,

(c) in paragraph (b) of the said section 36D—

(i) by the substitution of the following subparagraph for subparagraph (i):

“(i) arising from a course of study completed wholly or mainly in a Member State, and”,

and

(ii) in subparagraph (ii), by the substitution of “certificate of experience, or” for “certificate of experience.”,

(d) by the insertion of the following paragraph after paragraph (b) of the said section 36D:

“(c) has been awarded a medical degree—

(i) completed wholly or mainly in the United Kingdom, and

(ii) which meets the relevant criteria set for assessing applications by persons for entry in the register of interns specified in rules made under section 11.”,

and

(e) by the insertion of the following subsection after subsection (1), renumbered under subsection (1), of said section 36D:

“(2) In this section, ‘United Kingdom’ means—

(a) the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland,

(b) the Channel Islands, and

(c) the Isle of Man.”.

(2) This section shall come into operation on the day on which section 88 of the Act of 2020, insofar as that section relates to the insertion of section 36D of the Act of 2007, comes into operation.