Medical Practitioners Act 1995

                         Transitional Provisions

   144. Specialists and general practitioners--- (1) Every person who was
 registered as a specialist under the Medical Practitioners (Registration
 of Specialists) Regulations 1971 immediately before the commencement of
 this Act shall, on the commencement of this Act, be deemed to hold
 vocational registration in respect of the branch of medicine in which
 that person was so registered as a specialist.

   (2) Every person who, immediately before the commencement of this Act,
 was registered on the register of general practitioners established
 under the Medical Practitioners (Registration of General Practitioners)
 Regulations 1987 shall, on the commencement of this Act, be deemed to
 hold vocational registration in respect of the general practice of
 medicine.