Medical Practitioners Act, 1951

Replacement, in case of physical disability, of surgical experience by additional medical experience.

6.—(1) Where on an application in that behalf a person satisfies the Council that, by reason of lasting physical disability, he will be or has been prevented from embarking on, or completing, any period of experience of the practice of surgery or midwifery required for the purposes of any of the foregoing provisions of this Act, the Council may if it thinks fit direct that the applicant may for those purposes count in lieu thereof experience of the practice of medicine (in addition to what would otherwise be required in his case by the said provisions) acquired in the like manner and for the like period or, as the case may be, for so much of that period as will have remained uncompleted.

(2) Where the Council gives a direction under this section, it shall give notice of the direction to the body granting the qualifying diploma to the person to whom the direction relates.

(3) Subsections (6) and (7) of section 3 of this Act shall apply for the purposes of this section as they apply for the purposes of that section.