The Health Professions Council (Registration and Fees) Rules Order of Council 2003

Payment of fees U.K.

18.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2) the Registrar shall not include a person’s name in the register on an application for registration, readmission or restoration or, except as provided in rule 11, renew an entry in the register relating to any person, unless he has paid the prescribed registration fee, readmission fee, restoration fee or renewal fee.

(2) A person may, with the agreement of the Registrar, elect to pay any registration fee, readmission fee, restoration fee or renewal fee in four six-monthly instalments by direct debit and in that event—

(a) the Registrar may make, renew or restore a register entry once the first instalment of that fee has been paid by direct debit; and

(b) references in these Rules to an application being accompanied by any such fee shall be construed as if they were references to the application being accompanied by a direct debit mandate in respect of those fees.

(3) Where—

(a) it has been agreed in accordance with paragraph (2) that any fee is to be paid in instalments by direct debit; and

(b) following the payment of the first instalment and the making, renewal or restoration of a register entry, a subsequent payment is not made by the date on which it is due,

the Registrar shall send a notice to the registrant stating that, if payment is not received within 14 days (beginning with the day on which the Registrar sent the notice) the registrant’s name may be removed from the register, and if no such payment is made, the Registrar may remove the registrant’s name from the register.

(4) A person who satisfies the Council that he has retired from the practice of his profession, leaving unused his registration for a complete year of a registration period, shall, on written application to the Council, be given a refund of half the fee paid by him in respect of that registration period.