Cap. 464 Art. 44AEmployment conditions.

(1) No medical practitioner may be employed within the national health service unless he is in possession of a diploma, certificate or other evidence of formal qualification issued by a recognised competent authority:

Provided that persons who are either undergoing specific training in the practice of family medicine or who before the 1st May, 2004, have had their names entered into the Medical register may be exempt from such a requirement. This shall also be applicable to medical practitioners who have completed the training in another Member State.

(2) The Medical Council shall issue on request a certificate granting doctors who do not have a diploma, certificate or other evidence of formal qualifications but who possess the acquired rights referred to in the preceding article, the right to practice as general medical practitioners under the national health service.

(3) The Medical Council shall recognise under the national health service, for the purposes of the exercise of the activities of general medical practitioner, the diplomas, certificates and other evidence of formal qualifications issued to a national of a Member State by other Member States.

(4) The Medical Council shall also recognise the certificates referred to under sub-article (2) above, issued to nationals of Member States by other Member States, and shall consider them as equivalent within its territory to the diplomas, certificates and other evidence of formal qualifications which it issues itself, and which permit the exercise of the activities of general medical practitioner under the national health service.