Farriers (Registration) Act 1975

7 Qualifications for registration

(1) A person shall be entitled to be registered in Part I of the register if he satisfies the Council that he has—

(a) served under articles of apprenticeship in accordance with such terms and conditions as may be prescribed by the Council for a term not less than four years or such shorter period as the Council may prescribe and attended a course of training approved by the Council under section 11 of this Act; or

(b) attended a course of training at a school of farriery or other establishment approved by the Council under section 11 of this Act and has received such further practical training and experience as the Council may from time to time prescribe ; or

(c) completed a course of training as a farrier in Her Majesty's Army;

and in each case satisfies the Council by passing a prescribed examination that he has attained a sufficient standard to qualify him to carry out the shoeing of horses.

(2) A person shall be entitled to be registered in Part I of the register if not later than two years after the appointed day he applies for registration and satisfies the Council—

(a) that on the appointed day his name was registered in the Register of Farriers kept by the Company; and

(b) that during an aggregate period of 18 months in the period of 24 months ending on the said date he has been regularly and gainfully employed in the shoeing of horses.

(3) A person shall be entitled to be registered in Part I of the register if—

(a) he satisfies the Council that he holds a qualification granted outside the United Kingdom and for the time being accepted for the purposes of this subsection by the Council and that during the period of two years ending on the date of his application for registration he has been regularly and gainfully employed in the shoeing of horses ; or

(b) being a person whose name has been registered in Part II of the register he subsequently passes a prescribed examination.

(4) A person shall be entitled to be registered in Part II of the register if not later than two years after the appointed day he applies for registration and satisfies the Council—– 

(a) that during an aggregate period of three years in the period of five years ending on the appointed day he was engaged in the shoeing of horses by way of trade ; or

(b) that during the period of two years ending on the said date he was practising as a farrier in Her Majesty's Army.

(5) A person shall be entitled to be registered in Part III of the register if not later than 12 months after the appointed day he applies for registration and satisfies the Council by means of a statutory declaration by a practising veterinary surgeon, which shall be in the prescribed form, that during the period of two years ending on the appointed day 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.

(6) In any case in which it appears to the Council that a person has for sufficient reason failed to make application under subsection (2) or subsection (4) as the case may be of this section within two years of the appointed day or under subsection (5) of this section within 12 months thereof, the Council may direct that he shall be entitled to apply within such period as may be specified in the direction.

(7) For the purposes of subsections (4) and (5) of this section a person shall be deemed to have been engaged in the shoeing of horses by way of trade if—

(a) he has been self employed in the carrying out of the shoeing of horses owned by persons other than himself and such shoeing of horses has been carried out either as a full-time occupation or as a part-time occupation in conjunction with the trade of blacksmith or general smith; or

(b) he has otherwise than as an apprentice or while undergoing a course of training carried out the shoeing of horses in the course of his employment and such shoeing of horses has been carried out either—

(i) as a full-time occupation or as a part-time occupation in conjunction with the carrying on by his employer of the trade of a blacksmith or general smith; or

(ii) (in any case where his employer is not carrying on the trade of a blacksmith or general smith) as a full-time occupation or a part-time occupation and in relation only to horses owned by or in the charge of his employer or (with the prior approval and consent of his employer) to horses owned by a third person.