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

Amendment of section 11A

183.  In section 11A(1) (requirement for continuing education and training), after subsection (4) add—

“(5) Subsection (6) circumscribes the power under subsection (1) in relation to a person (“P”)—

(a) who is a registered optometrist only as a result of being in the register of visiting optometrists from relevant European States, or

(b) who is a registered dispensing optician only as a result of being in the register of visiting dispensing opticians from relevant European States.

(6) A scheme made by rules under subsection (1)—

(a) may not impose requirements on P if P is required to undertake, in P’s home State, continuing education and training in relation to the profession pursued in the United Kingdom by optometrists or dispensing opticians (as the case may be); and

(b) where it imposes requirements on P—

(i) shall take account of the fact that P is fully qualified to pursue that profession in P’s home State, and

(ii) shall specify that continuing education and training which P is required to undertake by the requirements may be undertaken outside the United Kingdom.

(7) In subsection (6) “home State”, in relation to P, means the relevant European State in which P is lawfully established in the profession pursued in the United Kingdom by optometrists or dispensing opticians (as the case may be).”.

(1)

Section 11A was inserted by S.I. 2005/848.