The European Qualifications (Health and Social Care Professions) Regulations 2007

Insertion of section 5A U.K.

219.  After section 5 insert—

“5A.    Temporary registration for visiting chiropractors from relevant European States

(1) This section applies to an exempt person (“V”) who is lawfully established as a chiropractor in a relevant European State other than the United Kingdom (“State A”).

(2) Subsection (3) applies if V has the benefit of regulation 8 of the General Systems Regulations in connection with the provision by V of services as a chiropractor in the United Kingdom on a temporary and occasional basis (V having complied with any requirements imposed under Part 2 of those Regulations in connection with the provision by V of services as a chiropractor).

(3) V is entitled to be registered as a temporarily registered chiropractor; and the Registrar shall give effect to the entitlement.

(4) If V is entitled under subsection (3) to be registered as a temporarily registered chiropractor but is not registered with temporary registration, V shall be treated as being registered with temporary registration.

(5) V's entitlement under subsection (3) ceases if V ceases, whether as a result of the operation of regulation 17 of the General Systems Regulations or otherwise, to have the benefit of regulation 8 of those Regulations in connection with the provision by V of services as a chiropractor in the United Kingdom on a temporary and occasional basis.

(6) If—

(a) V's entitlement under subsection (3) ceases by reason of the operation of subsection (5), and

(b) V is registered as a temporarily registered chiropractor,

the Registrar may remove from the register V's entry as a temporarily registered chiropractor.

(7) Subsection (8) applies if—

(a) V's establishment in State A is subject to a condition relating to V's practice as a chiropractor,

(b) V is registered as a temporarily registered chiropractor, and

(c) for any of the purposes of this Act it falls to be decided whether V is or may be guilty of unacceptable professional conduct.

(8) The matters that may be counted as unacceptable professional conduct include (in particular) any act or omission by V during the course of the provision by V of services as a chiropractor in the United Kingdom on a temporary and occasional basis that is, or would be if the condition applied in relation to practice as a chiropractor outside State A, a breach of the condition.

(9) In subsections (7) and (8) “condition” includes limitation.

(10) Subsections (1) to (6) are not to be taken to prejudice the application, in relation to temporarily registered chiropractors, of any other provision of this Act under which a registered chiropractor's name may be removed from the register or under which a registered chiropractor's registration may be suspended.”.