The Health Professions Council (Registration and Fees) Rules Order of Council 2003

Registration fee U.K.

14.—(1) Subject to [F1 paragraphs [F2 (2) to (5)]] the fee to be charged for registration following an application for registration is—

(a) in respect of the first registration period (as determined in accordance with rule 10(3)), where the applicant applies less than [F3 two years] after the date on which he was first awarded an approved qualification, [F4 £80]; and

(b) in all other cases, [F5 £160].

(2) A person who, on the date of the coming into force of the first order made by the Privy Council under article 6 of the Order, is transferred to the register from a register maintained under the 1960 Act and whose first registration period is determined in accordance with rule 10(2) shall not be liable to pay a registration fee in respect of that first registration period.

[F6 (3) A person—

(a) who, on 1st July 2009, is transferred to the register by virtue of article 5(3) of the Health Care and Associated Professions (Miscellaneous Amendments and Practitioner Psychologists) Order 2009 (transitory and transitional provisions relating to the introduction of statutory regulation of practitioner psychologists); and

(b) whose first registration period is determined in accordance with rule 10(2A),

shall not be liable to pay a registration fee in respect of that first registration period.]

[F7 (4) A person—

(a) who, on 1st April 2010, is admitted to the register by virtue of article 6(3) of the Health Professions (Hearing Aid Dispensers) Order 2010 (transitory and transitional provisions relating to the introduction of registration of hearing aid dispensers by the HPC); and

(b) whose first registration period is determined in accordance with rule 10(2B),

is not liable to pay a registration fee in respect of that first registration period.]

[F8 (5) A social worker whose first registration period is provided for in rule 10(2C) is not liable to pay a registration fee in respect of that registration period.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in Sch. rule 14(1) substituted (1.4.2010) by The Health Professions Council (Registration and Fees) (Amendment) Rules Order of Council 2010 (S.I. 2010/479), Sch. rules 1, 2(3)(a)

F2 Words in rule 14(1) substituted (1.8.2012) by The Health and Social Care Act 2012 (Consequential Provision—Social Workers) Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/1479), arts. 1(2), 4(6)(a)

F3 Words in rule 14(1)(a) substituted (1.6.2007) by The Health Professions Council (Registration and Fees) (Amendment) Rules Order of Council 2007 (S.I. 2007/1280), Sch. rules 1(1), 3(a)(i)

F4 Word in rule. 14(1)(a) substituted (1.4.2014) by The Health Professions Council (Registration and Fees) (Amendment) Rules 2013 Order of Council 2014 (S.I. 2014/532), Sch. rules 1, 2(4)(a)

F5 Word in rule. 14(1)(b) substituted (1.4.2014) by The Health Professions Council (Registration and Fees) (Amendment) Rules 2013 Order of Council 2014 (S.I. 2014/532), Sch. rules 1, 2(4)(b)

F6 Rule 14(3) inserted (1.7.2009) by The Health Professions Council (Practice Committees and Miscellaneous Amendments) Rules Order of Council 2009 (S.I. 2009/1355), Sch. rules 1(a), 9(b)(ii)

F7 Rule 14(4) inserted (1.4.2010) by The Health Professions Council (Registration and Fees) (Amendment) Rules Order of Council 2010 (S.I. 2010/479), Sch. rules 1, 2(3)(b)

F8 Rule 14(5) added (1.8.2012) by The Health and Social Care Act 2012 (Consequential Provision—Social Workers) Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/1479), arts. 1(2), 4(6)(b)