s 21 Provisional registration of EEA nationals etc. with certain overseas qualifications .
(1) The following provisions shall have effect for enabling persons wishing to satisfy the Registrar of the matters specified in section 19(1)(b) above to participate in an acceptable programme for provisionally registered doctors. (2) Where a person— (a) has made an application to the General Council, before IP completion day, to be provisionally registered under this section, and (b) satisfies the Registrar of the matters specified in paragraphs (a), (aa) and (c) of section 19(1), the person shall, if the Council think fit so to direct, be provisionally registered under this section. (2A) Subsection (3) of section 19 above applies in relation to an application for registration under this section as it applies in relation to an application for registration under that section. (3) A person provisionally registered under this section shall be deemed to be registered under section 19 above as a fully registered medical practitioner so far as is necessary to enable him to participate in an acceptable programme for provisionally registered doctors but not further.