Amendment of the Health Professions Council (Registration and Fees) Rules 2003
2.—(1) The Health Professions Council (Registration and Fees) Rules 2003(1) are amended in accordance with the following paragraphs.
(2) In rule 10 (registration period)—
(a)after paragraph (2A)(2) insert the following paragraph—
“(2B) The first registration period of a hearing aid dispenser 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(3) (transitory and transitional provisions relating to the introduction of registration of hearing aid dispensers by the HPC), will end on 31st July 2010.”;
(b)in paragraph (3), for “paragraph (2) or (2A)” substitute “paragraph (2), (2A) or (2B)”.
(3) In rule 14 (registration fee)—
(a)in paragraph (1), for “paragraph (2) and (3)” substitute “paragraphs (2) to (4)”;
(b)after paragraph (3) insert—
“(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.”.
(4) In Schedule 5(4) (registration period)—
(a)after the entry in the table in respect of “Dietitians” in column 1, insert “Hearing Aid Dispensers”;
(b)opposite that entry, in column 2, insert “31st July in an even numbered year”.
Those Rules are scheduled to S.I.2003/1572.
Paragraph (2A) is inserted by the Schedule to S.I.2009/1355.
Schedule 5 is substituted by the Schedule to S.I.2004/2524.