| (1) | A medical specialist who wishes to register in a subspeciality with the board, shall— |
| (a) | submit proof to the board that he or she, prior to commencing with education and training in the relevant subspeciality, complied with all the requirements for registration as a specialist in the basic or one of the basic specialities listed against the relevant subspeciality in regulation 4 and that he or she had been registered as a specialist in that speciality; |
| (b) | after 1 January 2001, submit proof to the board that he or she passed an evaluation in the relevant subspeciality which had been approved by the board; |
| (c) | submit a certificate to the board, issued by the relevant faculty of medicine or health sciences in South Africa, to certify that— |
| (i) | the applicant obtained education and training in the relevant subspeciality of at least two years as the holder of a post of senior registrar approved by the board under control of a unit in a teaching hospital which had been accredited by the board as a teaching unit in the said subspeciality; |
| (ii) | in the case of the subspeciality Clinical Haematology, the applicant shall— |
| (aa) | complete four years of education and training as a registrar in Pathology (Haematological) and then two years of such education and training in Medicine or Paediatrics as the holder of a post of senior registrar approved by the board under control of a unit in a teaching hospital which had been accredited by the board as a teaching unit in the said subspeciality; or |
| (bb) | complete four years of education and training as a registrar in Medicine or Paediatrics and then two years of such education and training in Pathology (Haematological) as the holder of a post of senior registrar approved by the board under control of a unit in a teaching hospital which had been accredited by the board as a teaching unit in the said subspeciality; |
| (d) | submit his or her application for registration in a subspeciality to the board on an application form supplied by the board which shall be duly completed; |
| (e) | pay the prescribed registration fee. |
| (2) | With reference to the education and training referred to in subregulation (1)— |
| (a) | education and training obtained— |
| (i) | in South Africa, shall be recognised by the board only if— |
| (aa) | the applicant was registered as a medical practitioner in terms of the Act in either the category independent practice (general practitioner) or independent practice (specialist) for the full duration thereof; and |
| (bb) | the applicant’s name appeared on the register of senior registrars which is kept in terms of regulation 13 hereof; |
| (ii) | wholly or partly in any country other than South Africa, shall be recognised by the board only if the person was registered as a medical practitioner with the relevant registering authority for the full duration thereof: |
Provided that exemption from the requirement in subparagraph (ii) may be granted at the discretion of the board;
| (b) | education and training obtained wholly or partly in any country other than South Africa, shall be recognised by the board only if the applicant submits documentary proof, issued by the foreign university or other educational institution, to certify that— |
| (i) | the hospital or hospitals at which the applicant was educated and trained, is/are or was/were a teaching hospital or hospitals of the faculty of medicine or medical school of that particular university or other educational institution; |
| (ii) | that hospital or hospitals is/are or was/were approved and recognised to provide education and training in the applicant’s subspeciality; |
| (iii) | the specified period which the applicant had spent at the hospital or hospitals in question, is regarded and recognised by that university or other educational institution as a period of education and training in the applicant’s subspeciality. |
| (3) | Education and training for a maximum of twelve months shall be recognised by the board if obtained in South Africa as the holder of a post of senior registrar approved by the board in a teaching unit which is accredited by the board as a satellite teaching unit in the relevant subspeciality. |
| (4) | Credit, on a basis to be determined by resolution of the board from time to time, shall be granted by the board for education and training obtained by a person as part-time holder of a post of senior registrar approved by the board. |
