Determination of applications

12EF1Professional competence for restricted licence holders

As from such date as may be prescribed, section 12B shall have effect F2as if—

a

the existing text of section 12B were renumbered subsection (1),

b

in section 12B(1), in the words before paragraph (a), before “requirement of” there were inserted “first”, and

c

after section 12B(1) there were inserted—

2

The second requirement of this section is that the applicant—

a

if an individual, is professionally competent (as determined in such manner as may be set out in regulations made for the purposes of section 12A(3)(a)(i)), or

b

if not an individual, or an individual who is not professionally competent, complies with section 12A(3)(b) as if the applicant were an applicant for a standard licence who is not an individual or is an individual who is not professionally competent.