The Recognition of Professional Qualifications and Implementation of International Recognition Agreements (Amendment) (Extension to Switzerland and Miscellaneous Provisions) (Wales) Regulations 2024

PART 1 General provisions

Title and coming into force

1.  The title of these Regulations is the Recognition of Professional Qualifications and Implementation of International Recognition Agreements (Amendment) (Extension to Switzerland and Miscellaneous Provisions) (Wales) Regulations 2024 and they come into force on 1 January 2025.

Interpretation

2.  In these Regulations—

“the 2023 Regulations” (“Rheoliadau 2023”) means the Recognition of Professional Qualifications and Implementation of International Recognition Agreements (Wales) (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2023(1);

“the Swiss Agreement” (“Cytundeb y Swistir”) means the Agreement between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Swiss Confederation on Recognition of Professional Qualifications done at London on 14 June 2023(2).

(1)

S.I. 2023/1294 (W. 230); amended by S.I. 2024/613 (W. 87) art. 14(a) and 14(b).

(2)

Published on 20th June 2023, ISBN 978-1-5286-4245-3, C.P. 869, a copy of which is available electronically at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/agreement-between-the-swiss-confederation-switzerland-and-the-uk-on-the-recognition-of-professional-qualifications. A hard copy can be obtained free of charge on request by calling the Department for Business and Trade on 020 4551 0011 or may be inspected free of charge at Old Admiralty Building, Admiralty Place, London, SW1A 2DY.