Definition of “Certificate”U.K.
6.—(1) In these Regulations, “Certificate” means any evidence of education and training received in accordance with paragraph (3), or any set of such evidence, which has been awarded by a competent authority in a relevant State and which shows that the holder either—
(a)followed a secondary course of a technical or vocational nature of a kind which renders it unnecessary to complete any further course of education and training of the kind described in paragraph (4) or probationary or professional practice; or
(b)in any other case, after having followed a secondary course has completed either—
(i)a course of education and training such as is described in paragraph (4) and, where appropriate, the probationary or professional practice which may be required in addition to that course, or
(ii)the probationary or professional practice required in addition to the secondary course;
and that the holder has the professional qualifications required for the practice of a regulated profession in that relevant State.
(2) The education and training referred to in paragraph (1) will have been received wholly or mainly—
(a)in the Community; or
(b)outside the Community at teaching establishments which provide education and training in accordance with the laws, regulations or administrative provisions of a relevant State, or otherwise; or
(c)in a third country, provided that the holder has at least two years’ professional experience certified by a relevant State which recognised evidence of education and training from that country.
(3) A course of education and training of the kind referred to in paragraph (1)(a) or (1)(b) will have been provided either—
(a)at an educational or training establishment; or
(b)on the job; or
(c)in a combination of (a) and (b)
but will not be a post-secondary course of the kind evidenced by a First or a Second General System Diploma.
(4) Any evidence of education and training, or any set of such evidence, which has been awarded by a competent authority in a relevant State and which—
(a)shows that the holder has successfully completed education and training received in the Community and recognised by a competent authority in that relevant State as being of equivalent level to education and training satisfying paragraph (1); and
(b)confers the same rights in respect of the practice of the regulated profession in that relevant State
shall, for the purposes of these Regulations, be treated in the same way as a Certificate.