Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Act 2020

Amendment of section 88 of Act of 2007

134. Section 88 of the Act of 2007 is amended—

(a) in subsection (1)(a), by the substitution of “medical qualifications (including medical degrees)” for “basic and specialist medical qualifications”,

(b) in subsection (2) —

(i) by the substitution of “in relation to medical degrees (other than postgraduate medical degrees that are not graduate entry degrees for medicine)” for “in relation to basic medical education”,

(ii) in paragraph (a)(i) —

(I) by the insertion of “where appropriate,” before “approve, approve subject to conditions”, and

(II) in clause (I), by the deletion of “basic”,

(iii) in paragraph (c), by the substitution of “medical degree” for “basic medical qualification”,

(iv) in paragraph (f), by the deletion of “basic”, and

(v) in paragraph (i), by the substitution of “medical degree” for “basic medical qualification”,

(c) in subsection (6), by the deletion of “basic” in each place that it occurs,

(d) in subsection (7), by the deletion of “basic”, and

(e) in subsection (8), by the deletion of “basic and specialist”.