The General Optical Council (Continuing Education and Training Rules) Order of Council 2005

Grant or refusal of application for approval of an event

10.—(1) Where an application under rule 7 or 8 for approval of an event has been submitted to the administrator, the administrator shall grant or refuse the application and, if he grants it, he shall—

(a) specify—

(i) the number of CET points that a registrant who undertakes the approved event will obtain, and

(ii) whether those points are to be general CET points under paragraph (2) or specialist CET points under paragraph (3); and

(b) allocate a reference number to the approved event.

(2) Where the administrator considers that an approved event is relevant to competencies which—

(a) are established by the Council under section 12(1)(a) (education and training)(1); and

(b) a registrant must be able to demonstrate in order to be granted a qualification as an optometrist or dispensing optician,

he shall specify that the type of points to be obtained by undertaking the event are general CET points.

(3) Where the administrator considers that an approved event is relevant to competencies which—

(a) are established in relation to a specialty by the Council under section 12(1)(a) (as applied to specialties by section 12(11)); and

(b) a registrant must be able to demonstrate in order to be permitted to practise that specialty,

he shall specify that the type of points to be obtained by undertaking the event are specialist CET points.

(4) The administrator shall notify the applicant of his decision in respect of the application and, if he grants it, he shall notify the applicant of the number and type of points specified, and the reference number allocated, under paragraph (1).

(1)

Section 12 was substituted by S.I. 2005/848.