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(1)Subject to section 15, a person is entitled to be registered in Part I of the register if he applies for registration and satisfies the Council—
(a)that on the 1st January 1976 his name was registered in the Register of Farriers kept by the Company;
(b)that he has satisfied such conditions as to apprenticeship or training or both as the Council may prescribe and has passed a prescribed examination;
(c)that he has completed a course of training as a farrier in Her Majesty’s Army and has passed a prescribed examination;
(d)that he is or has been registered in Part II or in Part IV of the register and has passed a prescribed examination; [F2or]
(e)that he holds a qualification—
(i)granted otherwise than in [F3Great Britain]; and
(ii)for the time being accepted for the purposes of this subsection by the Council,
and that during any period of two years subsequent to the date when he obtained his qualifications he has been regularly and gainfully engaged in the shoeing of horses;
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(2)Subject to section 15, a person is entitled to be registered in Part II of the register if he applies for registration before such date as may be prescribed and satisfies the Council that during any period of two years before the date of his application or such shorter period as the Council may approve he was—
(a)otherwise than as an apprentice or while undergoing a course of training, regularly engaged in the shoeing of horses in a business which consists exclusively of such shoeing or is the business of a blacksmith or general smith of which the shoeing of horses forms a part; or
(b)practising as a farrier in Her Majesty’s Army.
(3)Subject to section 15, a person is entitled to be registered in Part III of the register if he applies for registration before such date as may be prescribed and satisfies the Council by means of a certificate by a practising veterinary surgeon, which shall be in the prescribed form, or by such other evidence as the Council may in his case consider appropriate, that during any period of two years before the date of his application for registration he has regularly and competently—
(a)carried out the shoeing of horses belonging to himself; or
(b)otherwise than by way of trade or for reward, carried out the shoeing of horses belonging to other persons.
(4)Subject to section 15, a person is entitled to be registered in Part IV of the register if—
(a)being a person who is not otherwise entitled to be registered under this Act he applies for registration before such date as may be prescribed and satisfies the Council that during any period of two years before the date of his application for registration or such shorter period as the Council may approve he has been regularly and gainfully engaged in the shoeing of horses otherwise than as an apprentice or while undergoing a course of training; or
(b)being a person who has not passed a prescribed examination he applies for registration before the date prescribed pursuant to paragraph (a) and satisfies the Council that he has complied with—
(i)the conditions as to apprenticeship or training prescribed by the Council in accordance with paragraph (b) of subsection (1), and
(ii)such additional conditions, if any, as to further apprenticeship or training as the Council may require in his case.
(5)In any case in which it appears to the Council that a person has for sufficient reason failed to make an application under subsection (2), (3) or (4) before such dates as the Council may have respectively prescribed for the purposes of those subsections, the Council may direct that he is entitled to apply within such period as may be specified in that direction.
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Textual Amendments
F1Ss. 7-9 substituted (31.3.2008) by Farriers’ Qualifications (European Recognition) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/646), regs. 1, 5
F2Word in s. 7(1)(d) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Farriers and Animal Health (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/457), regs. 1(1), 2(3)(a)(i) (with regs. 3-4A) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1038, regs. 1(3), 6); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F3Words in s. 7(1)(e)(i) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Farriers and Animal Health (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/457), regs. 1(1), 2(3)(a)(ii) (with regs. 3-4A) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1038, regs. 1(3), 6); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F4S. 7(1)(f) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Farriers and Animal Health (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/457), regs. 1(1), 2(3)(a)(iii) (with regs. 3-4A) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1038, regs. 1(3), 6); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F5S. 7(1)(g) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Farriers and Animal Health (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/457), regs. 1(1), 2(3)(a)(iii) (with regs. 3-4A) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1038, regs. 1(3), 6); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F6S. 7(6)-(9) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Farriers and Animal Health (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/457), regs. 1(1), 2(3)(b) (with regs. 3-4A) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1038, regs. 1(3), 6); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
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