The Postgraduate Medical Education and Training (Amendment) Order of Council 2016

Made: 15th February 2016

Laid before Parliament: 23rd February 2016

Coming into force: 1st April 2016

At the Council Chamber, Whitehall the 15th day of February 2016By the Lords of Her Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council

Their Lordships make the following Order in exercise of powers conferred by sections 34D(3) and 34K(1)(c) of the Medical Act 1983[^f00001].

Citation and commencement

1

This Order may be cited as the Postgraduate Medical Education and Training (Amendment) Order of Council 2016 and comes into force on 1st day of April 2016.

Amendment

2

In Part 2 of the Schedule to the Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Order of Council 2010[^f00002] (recognised specialties within the United Kingdom), at the appropriate place in the alphabetical order insert “Aviation and space medicine”.

Signed

Ceri King — Deputy Clerk of the Privy Council

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Order amends the Schedule to the Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Order of Council 2010 (“the 2010 Order”) (S.I.2010/473). That Schedule lists the specialties recognised in the United Kingdom.

Article 2 amends Part 2 (specialties for which there is a minimum training period of four years) of the Schedule to the 2010 Order by adding an entry for “Aviation and space medicine”.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1983 c. 54. Sections 34D and 34K were inserted by 2010/234, article 4 and Schedule 1, paragraph 10.

[^f00002]: S.I. 2010/473. The Schedule was substituted by article 2 of S.I. 2012/344.