PART 4 REQUIREMENTS OF EVIDENCE OF PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE, ADAPTATION PERIODS AND APTITUDE TESTS

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1

A designated authority may not in any case in which a migrant had made application to take up or pursue a regulated profession require the migrant to comply with more than one of the following requirements, that is to say—

a

to produce evidence of professional experience;

b

successfully to complete an adaptation period;

c

to take and pass an aptitude test.

2

A designated authority wishing to apply to a migrant a requirement either to complete an adaptation period or to take an aptitude test shall, except in a case provided for as an exception by Regulation 6(2) of, and Schedule 3 to, the First General System Regulations or by paragraph (3), afford the migrant the right to choose between them.

3

In the case of a profession listed in the first column of the table in Schedule 7 the requirement shall be as specified in the second column of that table.