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

PART 1 CITATION, COMMENCEMENT AND INTERPRETATION

Citation and commencement

1.  These Rules may be cited as the General Optical Council (Continuing Education and Training) Rules 2005 and shall come into force on 1st July 2005.

Interpretation

2.—(1) In these Rules—

“administrator” means—

(a)

any person who is for the time being appointed under rule 3(a) or

(b)

in a case falling within rule 3(b), the Council;

“approved event” means a continuing education and training event which is approved under rule 10;

“CET point” means a general CET point or a specialist CET point;

“the Council” means the General Optical Council;

“continuing education and training event” means a learning event, lecture, seminar, curriculum or other programme or method of study (whether requiring attendance or not) that is relevant to the needs and professional standards of optometrists or dispensing opticians;

“general CET point” means a CET point specified as such under rule 10(2);

“initial relevant period” means the period commencing on 1st July 2005 and ending on 31st December 2006;

“listed provider” means a person whose application under rule 5 for his name to be added to the list of event providers is granted under rule 9;

“month” means a calendar month;

“reference number”, in relation to an approved event, means a number allocated to that event under rule 10(1)(b);

“registrant” means a registered optometrist or registered dispensing optician;

“registrar” means the registrar of the Council referred to in section 1(3) (constitution and functions of the Council);

“Registration Rules” means the General Optical Council (Registration) Rules 2005(1);

“relevant period” means each period of one year, commencing with 1st January 2007;

“shortfall of points”, in relation to the initial relevant period or any subsequent relevant period, means any CET points which a registrant was required to obtain in that period but has failed to obtain;

“specialty” means a specialty or level of proficiency particulars of which may, by virtue of rule 10 of the Registration Rules, be entered in a register against a registrant’s name;

“specialist CET point” means a CET point specified as such under rule 10(3); and

“year” means a calendar year.

(2) In these Rules, references to the type of CET point specified or obtained in relation to an approved event are references to whether the CET points specified or obtained for that event are general CET points or specialist CET points.

(3) In these Rules any reference to a numbered section is a reference to the section of the Opticians Act 1989 which bears that number.

(1)

The Rules are scheduled to S.I. 2005/ 1478