39.—(1) A competent authority, in cases of justified doubt, may require from a competent authority of a relevant European State confirmation of the authenticity of the attestations and evidence of formal qualifications awarded in that other relevant European State.
(2) A competent authority, in cases of justified doubt, is entitled, where evidence of formal qualifications has been issued by a competent authority of a relevant European State and includes training received in whole or in part in an establishment legally established in a relevant European State other than that which awarded the qualification, to verify with a competent authority of the relevant European State of origin of the award—
(a)whether the training course at the establishment which gave the training has been formally certified by the educational establishment in the relevant European State of origin of the award;
(b)whether the evidence of formal qualifications issued is the same as that which would have been awarded if the course had been followed in the relevant European State of origin of the award; and
(c)whether the evidence of formal qualifications confers the same professional rights in the territory of the relevant European State of origin of the award.
(3) A competent authority, in cases of justified doubt, is entitled to require confirmation from a competent authority of a relevant European state that the applicant is not suspended or prohibited from the pursuit of the profession as a result of serious professional misconduct or conviction of criminal offences relating to the pursuit of any of the applicant's professional activities.