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Medical Practitioners Act 1995

XI: Miscellaneous Provisions
Transitional Provisions
145   Registered medical practitioners



   145. Registered medical practitioners--- (1) Every person who,
 immediately before the commencement of this Act,---
   (a) Was registered as a medical practitioner under the Medical
         Practitioners Act 1968; and
   (b) Was not registered---
           (i) As a specialist under the Medical Practitioners
         (Registration of Specialists) Regulations 1971; or
           (ii) As a general practitioner under the Medical Practitioners
         (Registration of General Practitioners) Regulations 1987---
 shall, on the commencement of this Act, be deemed to hold general
 registration.

   (2) Notwithstanding anything in section 20 (1) of this Act, where any
 person to whom subsection (1) of this section applies has held an annual
 practising certificate issued under section 67 of the Medical
 Practitioners Act 1968 for a period of at least 5 consecutive years
 since gaining registration as a medical practitioner under that Act,
 then, during the period of 5 years beginning on the commencement of this
 Act, that person shall not be subject to the requirement of general
 oversight specified in section 20 (1) of this Act.

   (3) Subject to any conditions set by the Council pursuant to section
 20 (2) of this Act,---
   (a) Any person to whom subsection (2) of this section applies may,
         during the period of 5 years beginning on the commencement of
         this Act, provide general oversight in relation to the practice,
         by any person who holds general registration, of any branch or
         sub-branch of medicine; and
   (b) During that period, such general oversight shall be deemed, for
         the purposes of section 20 (1) of this Act, to be general
         oversight by a person who holds vocational registration in that
         branch or sub-branch of medicine, even though the person
         providing general oversight does not hold vocational
         registration in that branch or sub-branch of medicine.
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