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Medical Practitioners Act 1995

III: Registration
Probationary Registration
15   Holders of probationary registration to practise only with approved persons



   15. Holders of probationary registration to practise only with
 approved persons---(1) No medical practitioner who holds probationary
 registration shall practise medicine except in the employ of, or in
 association with, an approved person.

   (2) Where the approval of any approved person (in this subsection
 referred to as the approval-holder) is revoked, the following provisions
 apply:
   (a) Notwithstanding that revocation, the Council may permit any person
         (in this subsection referred to as the probationer) who, at the
         date on which the revocation takes effect,---
           (i) Holds probationary registration; and
           (ii) Is practising medicine in the employ of, or in
         association with, the approval-holder---
           to continue to so practise for such period (not exceeding 4
         months) as the Council thinks fit:
   (b) While the probationer continues to so practise during that period,
         the probationer shall be deemed, for the purposes of subsection
         (1) of this section and sections 17 and 19 (a) of this Act, to
         be practising medicine in the employ of or, as the case
         requires, in association with, an approved person.
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