The General Osteopathic Council (Application for Registration and Fees) Rules Order of Council 2000

PART I Introduction

Citation and commencement

1.  These Rules may be cited as the General Osteopathic Council (Application for Registration and Fees) Rules 2000 and shall come into force on 9th May 2000.

Interpretation

2.—(1) In these Rules, unless the context otherwise requires—

“the Act” means the Osteopaths Act 1993;

“applicant” means a person applying to be registered as a registered osteopath;

“bank authority” means any form of authority which a person may give to his bank including a letter of authority, banker’s order, standing order or variable direct debit;

“doctor” means a registered medical practitioner;

“European Economic Area State” means a state which is a contracting party to the European Economic Area Agreement;

“European Economic Area Agreement” means the Agreement on the European Economic Area signed at Oporto on 2nd May 1992(1) as adjusted by the Protocol signed at Brussels on 17th March 1993(2);

“relative”, in relation to any person, means any of the following—

(a)

his spouse;

(b)

any lineal ancestor, lineal descendant, brother, sister, aunt, uncle, nephew, niece or first cousin of his or his spouse;

(c)

the spouse of any relative within paragraph (b) above; and for the purposes of deducing any such relationship “spouse” includes a former spouse, a partner to whom the person is not married, and a partner of the same sex; and “relevant qualification” means a recognised qualification or a qualification treated as a recognised qualification by rules made under section 3(6) of the Act.

(2) In these Rules, any reference to the date on which the retention fee is due is a reference to—

(a) where the entry in the register was first made during the transitional period, the first 9th May following the end of that period and 9th May in every subsequent year;

(b) where the entry in the register was first made after the end of the transitional period, the anniversary of the date on which the entry was first made in the register and on that date in every subsequent year and if the entry was first made on 29th February it shall be treated as having been made on 1st March;

(c) where an entry in the register has been removed and is subsequently restored, the anniversary of the date on which restoration was made and on that date in every subsequent year and if restoration was made on 29th February it shall be treated as having been made on 1st March.

(3) Unless the context otherwise requires—

(a) any reference in these Rules to a numbered rule is a reference to the rule bearing that number in these Rules; and

(b) any reference in a rule to a numbered paragraph is a reference to the paragraph bearing that number in that rule.

Service of documents

3.—(1) In these Rules—

(a) any reference to the sending of a notice to an applicant or a registered osteopath is a reference to the sending of the notice by registered post service or by a postal service in which delivery or receipt is recorded to the address at which he has his practice or his principal practice or, if he is not practising, the address which he has informed the Registrar in writing is the address to be shown in the register in relation to his name; and

(b) where any notice or document is sent to an applicant or a registered osteopath, it shall be treated as having been sent on the day that it was posted.

(2) The address at which a registered osteopath has his principal practice is the address which he has informed the Registrar is the address to be shown as such in the register in relation to his name.

(1)

Command 2073 and OJ No. L1 3.1.1994 page 3.

(2)

Command 2183 and OJ No. L1 3.1.1994 page 572.