The Health Professions Order 2001

Transitional provisions relating to admission to the register

13.—(1) This article applies to a person—

(a) who is not registered on the date of coming into force of an order made under article 6(1) which relates to his profession and who has never been registered under the 1960 Act or this Order; but

(b) who within the period of two years beginning with the date mentioned in sub-paragraph (a) (“the relevant period”),

applies for admission to the register under article 9(1).

(2) A person to whom this article applies shall be treated as satisfying the requirements of article 9(2)(a) if he satisfies the Education and Training Committee, following any test of competence as it may require him to take—

(a) that for a period of at least three out of the five years immediately preceding the date mentioned in paragraph (1)(a), or its equivalent on a part-time basis, he has been wholly or mainly engaged in the lawful, safe and effective practice of the profession in respect of which he wishes to be registered; or

(b) that he has not so practised but he has undergone in the United Kingdom or elsewhere such additional training and experience as satisfies the Council that he has the requisite standard of proficiency for admission to the part of the register in respect of which he is applying.

(3) The Council shall, having consulted such of those persons mentioned in article 3(14) as it considers appropriate, establish from time to time the criteria to which the Education and Training Committee shall have regard in reaching a decision under paragraph (2) and it shall publish those criteria.