http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2021/1234/note/madeThe General Optical Council (Continuing Professional Development) Rules Order of Council 2021enKing's Printer of Acts of Parliament2021-11-03HEALTH CARE AND ASSOCIATED PROFESSIONS;OPTICIANS This Order approves and gives effect to the General Optical Council (Continuing Professional Development) Rules 2021 (“the Continuing Professional Development Rules”). These Rules revoke and replace the General Optical Council (Continuing Education and Training) Rules 2005. The General Optical Council (Continuing Education and Training Rules) Order of Council 2005 (S.I. 2005/1473) and the General Optical Council (Continuing Education and Training Rules) (Amendment) Order of Council 2012 (S.I. 2012/2882), which approved and gave effect to the 2005 Rules and amendments to it, are superseded. EXPLANATORY NOTE (This note is not part of the Order)

This Order approves and gives effect to the General Optical Council (Continuing Professional Development) Rules 2021 (“the Continuing Professional Development Rules”). These Rules revoke and replace the General Optical Council (Continuing Education and Training) Rules 2005. The General Optical Council (Continuing Education and Training Rules) Order of Council 2005 (S.I. 2005/1473) and the General Optical Council (Continuing Education and Training Rules) (Amendment) Order of Council 2012 (S.I. 2012/2882), which approved and gave effect to the 2005 Rules and amendments to it, are superseded.

The Continuing Professional Development Rules provide for a scheme of continuing professional development for registered optometrists and registered dispensing opticians (“registrants”) administered on behalf of the General Optical Council. They set out the requirements for registrants to obtain general and specialist continuing professional development points during each relevant period of three years. They provide for a scheme of approval of events and event providers (“listed providers”), and set out the requirements of listed providers, administrators and registrants to keep records of continuing professional development events.

This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.
<Legislation xmlns="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/namespaces/legislation" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2021/1234/made" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2021/1234" NumberOfProvisions="29" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/namespaces/legislation http://www.legislation.gov.uk/schema/legislation.xsd" SchemaVersion="1.0">
<ukm:Metadata xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:dct="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:ukm="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/namespaces/metadata">
<dc:identifier>http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2021/1234/note/made</dc:identifier>
<dc:title>The General Optical Council (Continuing Professional Development) Rules Order of Council 2021</dc:title>
<dc:language>en</dc:language>
<dc:publisher>King's Printer of Acts of Parliament</dc:publisher>
<dc:modified>2021-11-03</dc:modified>
<dc:subject scheme="SIheading">HEALTH CARE AND ASSOCIATED PROFESSIONS;OPTICIANS</dc:subject>
<dc:description>This Order approves and gives effect to the General Optical Council (Continuing Professional Development) Rules 2021 (“the Continuing Professional Development Rules”). These Rules revoke and replace the General Optical Council (Continuing Education and Training) Rules 2005. The General Optical Council (Continuing Education and Training Rules) Order of Council 2005 (S.I. 2005/1473) and the General Optical Council (Continuing Education and Training Rules) (Amendment) Order of Council 2012 (S.I. 2012/2882), which approved and gave effect to the 2005 Rules and amendments to it, are superseded.</dc:description>
<atom:link rel="self" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2021/1234/note/made/data.xml" type="application/xml"/>
<atom:link rel="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/def/navigation/resources" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2021/1234/resources" title="More Resources"/>
<atom:link rel="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/def/navigation/act" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2021/1234/made" title="whole act"/>
<atom:link rel="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/def/navigation/introduction" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2021/1234/introduction/made" title="introduction"/>
<atom:link rel="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/def/navigation/signature" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2021/1234/signature/made" title="signature"/>
<atom:link rel="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/def/navigation/note" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2021/1234/note/made" title="note"/>
<atom:link rel="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/def/navigation/body" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2021/1234/body/made" title="body"/>
<atom:link rel="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/def/navigation/schedules" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2021/1234/schedules/made" title="schedules"/>
<atom:link rel="alternate" type="application/rdf+xml" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2021/1234/note/made/data.rdf" title="RDF/XML"/>
<atom:link rel="alternate" type="application/akn+xml" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2021/1234/note/made/data.akn" title="AKN"/>
<atom:link rel="alternate" type="application/xhtml+xml" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2021/1234/note/made/data.xht" title="HTML snippet"/>
<atom:link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2021/1234/note/made/data.htm" title="Website (XHTML) Default View"/>
<atom:link rel="alternate" type="text/csv" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2021/1234/note/made/data.csv" title="CSV"/>
<atom:link rel="alternate" type="application/pdf" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2021/1234/note/made/data.pdf" title="PDF"/>
<atom:link rel="alternate" type="application/akn+xhtml" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2021/1234/note/made/data.html" title="HTML5 snippet"/>
<atom:link rel="http://purl.org/dc/terms/tableOfContents" hreflang="en" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2021/1234/contents/made" title="Table of Contents"/>
<atom:link rel="up" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2021/1234/made" title="Entire legislation"/>
<atom:link rel="prev" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2021/1234/signature/made" title="Signature; Signature"/>
<atom:link rel="prevInForce" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2021/1234/signature/made" title="Signature; Signature"/>
<ukm:SecondaryMetadata>
<ukm:DocumentClassification>
<ukm:DocumentCategory Value="secondary"/>
<ukm:DocumentMainType Value="UnitedKingdomStatutoryInstrument"/>
<ukm:DocumentStatus Value="final"/>
<ukm:DocumentMinorType Value="order"/>
</ukm:DocumentClassification>
<ukm:Year Value="2021"/>
<ukm:Number Value="1234"/>
<ukm:Made Date="2021-11-03"/>
<ukm:ComingIntoForce>
<ukm:DateTime Date="2022-01-01"/>
</ukm:ComingIntoForce>
<ukm:ISBN Value="9780348228786"/>
</ukm:SecondaryMetadata>
<ukm:Alternatives>
<ukm:Alternative URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2021/1234/pdfs/uksi_20211234_en.pdf" Date="2021-11-04" Size="88554"/>
</ukm:Alternatives>
<ukm:Statistics>
<ukm:TotalParagraphs Value="30"/>
<ukm:BodyParagraphs Value="2"/>
<ukm:ScheduleParagraphs Value="28"/>
<ukm:AttachmentParagraphs Value="0"/>
<ukm:TotalImages Value="0"/>
</ukm:Statistics>
</ukm:Metadata>
<Secondary>
<ExplanatoryNotes DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2021/1234/note/made" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2021/1234/note">
<Title>EXPLANATORY NOTE</Title>
<Comment>
<Para>
<Text>(This note is not part of the Order)</Text>
</Para>
</Comment>
<P>
<Text>
This Order approves and gives effect to the General Optical Council (Continuing Professional Development) Rules 2021 (“the Continuing Professional Development Rules”). These Rules revoke and replace the General Optical Council (Continuing Education and Training) Rules 2005. The General Optical Council (Continuing Education and Training Rules) Order of Council 2005 (
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2005/1473" id="c00001" Class="UnitedKingdomStatutoryInstrument" Year="2005" Number="1473">S.I. 2005/1473</Citation>
) and the General Optical Council (Continuing Education and Training Rules) (Amendment) Order of Council 2012 (
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2012/2882" id="c00002" Class="UnitedKingdomStatutoryInstrument" Year="2012" Number="2882">S.I. 2012/2882</Citation>
), which approved and gave effect to the 2005 Rules and amendments to it, are superseded.
</Text>
</P>
<P>
<Text>The Continuing Professional Development Rules provide for a scheme of continuing professional development for registered optometrists and registered dispensing opticians (“registrants”) administered on behalf of the General Optical Council. They set out the requirements for registrants to obtain general and specialist continuing professional development points during each relevant period of three years. They provide for a scheme of approval of events and event providers (“listed providers”), and set out the requirements of listed providers, administrators and registrants to keep records of continuing professional development events.</Text>
</P>
</ExplanatoryNotes>
</Secondary>
</Legislation>