(1)The General Council may make rules requiring registered osteopaths to undertake further courses of training.
(2)The rules may, in particular, make provision with respect to registered osteopaths who fail to comply with any requirements of the rules, including provision for their registration to cease to have effect.
[F1(2A)Subsections (1) and (2), so far as relating to a person (“P”) who is a registered osteopath only as a result of being registered with temporary registration, have effect subject to, respectively, subsections (2B) and (2C).
(2B)Rules made under subsection (1)—
(a)may not impose requirements on P if P is required to undertake, in P’s home State, further courses of training in relation to the profession of osteopathy; and
(b)where they impose requirements on P—
(i)shall take account of the fact that P is a fully qualified osteopath in P’s home State, and
(ii)shall specify that training which P is required to undertake by the requirements may be undertaken outside the United Kingdom.
(2C)Where rules make provision such as is mentioned in subsection (2), the rules must secure that any sanction imposed in relation to P by or under that provision is appropriate and proportionate in view of P’s continued lawful establishment as an osteopath in P’s home State.
(2D)In this section “home State”, in relation to P, means the relevant European State in which P is lawfully established as an osteopath.]
(3)Before making, or varying, any rules under this section the General Council shall take such steps as are reasonably practicable to consult those who are registered osteopaths and such other persons as the Council considers appropriate.
Textual Amendments
F1S. 17(2A)-(2D) inserted (3.12.2007) by The European Qualifications (Health and Social Care Professions) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/3101), regs. 1(2), 210