The General Osteopathic Council (Application for Registration and Fees) Rules Order of Council 2000

Registrar’s authority in relation to retention fees

9.—(1) Except where it has been agreed that the retention fee shall be paid by instalments, the Registrar shall remove from the register any entry relating to a registered osteopath who, after the appropriate notices specified in either paragraph (2) or (3) have been sent, fails to pay the retention fee unless he is satisfied that the removal would cause the osteopath undue hardship.

(2) Where a registered osteopath has not given the Registrar a bank authority, the Registrar shall—

(a) send the osteopath a notice in writing not less than 28 days before the date on which the retention fee is due which states that the retention fee is due and the date on which it is due; and

(b) if the retention fee has not been paid by the date on which it is due, send a further notice (“the second notice”) in writing stating that if the retention fee is not paid within the period of 14 days beginning with the day on which the second notice is sent the Registrar will remove the osteopath’s entry from the register unless the osteopath satisfies him that removal from the register would cause him undue hardship.

(3) Where a registered osteopath has given the Registrar a bank authority and the retention fee has not been paid in accordance with that authority by the date on which that fee is due, the Registrar shall send the osteopath a notice in writing stating that, if the retention fee is not paid within the period of 28 days beginning with the day on which the notice is sent, the Registrar will remove the osteopath’s entry from the register unless the osteopath satisfies him that removal from the register would cause him undue hardship.

(4) Where it has been agreed in accordance with rule 8(5) that the retention fee shall be paid by instalments and the osteopath has failed to pay an instalment on the date when it is due, the Registrar shall send the osteopath a notice in writing stating that, if the instalment is not paid within the period of 14 days beginning with the day on which the notice is sent, the Registrar will remove the osteopath’s entry from the register unless the osteopath satisfies him that removal from the register would cause him undue hardship.

(5) If the instalment is not paid within the period referred to in paragraph (4), the Registrar shall remove the osteopath’s entry from the register unless he is satisfied that the removal would cause the osteopath concerned undue hardship.

(6) In this rule, a reference to the date on which an instalment of a retention fee is due is a reference to a date which the Registrar has notified the osteopath concerned under rule 8(5) is a date on which an instalment is payable.