The European Communities (Recognition of Professional Qualifications) Regulations 2007

Non compliance

17.—(1) An applicant shall no longer be entitled to provide services in the profession that he is pursuing in United Kingdom in accordance with this Part nor retain any temporary registration, if—

(a) he becomes established in that profession in the United Kingdom; or

(b) he is subject to a decision of the competent or judicial authority of the relevant European State in which he is established which has the effect that he is no longer lawfully established in that State or that he is prohibited (even temporarily) from practising that profession there.

(2) Where—

(a) under regulation 11 an applicant should have, but has not, renewed (or further renewed) a declaration under that regulation; and

(b) under the professional rules concerned, a sanction is imposed by reference to the failure to renew,

the sanction is of no effect if, or so far as, it is not in the circumstances of the case proportionate to the failure to renew.

(3) Where under an enactment any register is maintained of persons engaged in the profession concerned, the competent authority for the profession, as a sanction for the failure to renew, may cause the applicant’s name to be removed from that register.

(4) For the purposes of paragraph (2)(b), paragraph (3) is part of the professional rules concerned.