The Vocational Training for General Medical Practice (European Requirements) Regulations 1994

Prescribed experience

7.—(1) Regulation 5 of the 1979 Regulations and regulation 5 of the 1980 Regulations (prescribed experience) are each amended as follows.

(2) After paragraph (2) insert—

“(2A) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(b), employment which is not whole-time cannot count as “equivalent” to whole-time employment unless it includes at least two periods of whole-time employment, each lasting not less than one week, one such period falling within paragraph (i) and one within paragraph (ii).”.

(3) In paragraph (3), for “occupied less than half” substitute “, taken week by week, occupied less than 60%”.

(4) After paragraph (3) insert—

“(3A) The Joint Committee shall supervise the training referred to in paragraph (1)(b), and shall in particular secure that it complies with the requirements of article 31(1) of the Medical Directive, or (in the case of part-time training) article 31(1) as appropriately modified together with article 34.”.

(5) Paragraphs (2) and (3) of this regulation, and paragraph (4) so far as the amendment it makes refers to article 34 of the Medical Directive, have effect only in relation to a period of training begun after 31st December 1994.