MED.B.005 General medical requirements

Applicants for a medical certificate shall be assessed in accordance with the detailed medical requirements set out in Sections 2 and 3. They shall, in addition, be assessed as unfit where they have any of the following medical conditions which entails a degree of functional incapacity which is likely to interfere with the safe exercise of the privileges of the licence applied for or could render the applicant likely to become suddenly unable to exercise those privileges:

(a)abnormality, either congenital or acquired;

(b)active, latent, acute or chronic disease or disability;

(c)wound, injury or sequelae from operation;

(d)effect or side effect of any prescribed or non-prescribed therapeutic, diagnostic or preventive medication taken. In their examination AMEs shall give proper consideration to the degenerative effects of ageing on the body systems.