The General Chiropractic Council (Registration During Transitional Period) Rules Order of Council 1999

Applications for registration during transitional period

3.—(1) An application for registration made during the transitional period shall be made to the Registrar in writing in the form set out in the Schedule, and shall be accompanied by the fee prescribed by Rule 9.

(2) The applicant shall provide the following in relation to any such application–

(a) a reference as to good character from a person unrelated to the applicant by birth or marriage, being a person of good standing in the community who has known the applicant for at least four years and who is acceptable to the Registrar (including a solicitor, accountant, bank manager, Justice of the Peace, Minister of the Church, Imam, Rabbi, or similar religious official who appears to the Registrar to be appropriate);

(b) subject to paragraph (5), a report as to the physical and mental health of the applicant meeting the requirements of that paragraph;

(c) except in the case of an application for conditional registration and subject to paragraph (3), evidence of the applicant having a recognised qualification comprising the document conferring it or an original certificate issued by the institution granting it that it has conferred the qualification on the applicant;

(d) so far as relevant, all the other particulars specified in the form in the Schedule; and

(e) such other information or documents as the Registrar may reasonably require for the purposes of determining the application.

(3) If the applicant does not hold a qualification recognised under section 14 of the Act, an applicant for registration as a fully registered chiropractor during the transitional period shall additionally provide evidence acceptable to the Registrar that he is to be treated as having such a qualification by virtue of meeting the requirements of section 3(3) of the Act.

(4) In the case of an application for registration as a conditionally registered chiropractor, the applicant shall additionally provide–

(a) evidence acceptable to the Registrar that he meets the requirements of section 4(2)(d) of the Act; or

(b) if section 4(6) of the Act applies or appears likely to apply, the document conferring any qualification in chiropractic which is not a recognised qualification but which has not been refused recognition by the General Council, or an original certificate issued by the institution granting the qualification that it has conferred it on the applicant.

(5) The report given under paragraph (2)(b) shall be given by the applicant’s medical practitioner, who must not be related to the applicant by birth or marriage and must have known the applicant for a period of at least four years; but if the Registrar is satisfied that because these conditions cannot be met, no such report can be given, the Registrar may satisfy himself as to the mental and physical health of the applicant (so far as he considers it necessary to do so having regard to any other information available under Rule 5(2) or examination required under Rule 5(3)) by a report given by a registered medical practitioner who, in giving the report, relies on the medical records of the applicant made by registered medical practitioners of whom the applicant was a patient (or by partners of such practitioners) for a period in aggregate of at least four years.