Medical Practitioners Act 1995

                          General Registration

   19. Qualifications for general registration---Subject to section 13 of
 this Act, a person is entitled to general registration if he or she
 satisfies the Council that he or she intends to reside and practise
 medicine in New Zealand, and that he or she---
   (a) Has been granted probationary registration and has, after that,
         had, for a period of at least 1 year, satisfactory experience of
         the practice of medicine in the employ of, or in association
         with, an approved person; or
   (b) Has been granted or is eligible to be granted probationary
         registration and has had, for a period of at least 1 year,
         experience of the practice of medicine outside New Zealand which
         the Council is satisfied is sufficient to allow exemption from a
         period of probationary registration in New Zealand; or
   (c) Is a graduate in medicine of any approved institution, and---
           (i) Has practised medicine competently over a period of at
         least 3 years during the 5 years immediately before his or her
         application for general registration, which shall be proved by
         the production to the Council of written evidence of such
         practice; and
           (ii) Has been assessed by the Council, in such manner as the
         Council thinks fit, as competent to practise medicine; or
   (d) Has been granted probationary registration and has passed or been
         exempted from such examinations or assessments as may be
         required by the Council for general registration.
     Cf. 1968, No. 46, s. 18 (1)