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

Amendment of section 36C

123.  In section 36C(1) (qualifications for registration)—

(a) for subsection (3) substitute—

“(3) Matter B is that the person—

(a) is an exempt person; and

(b) is permitted to practise in the United Kingdom as a member of the profession pursued by clinical dental technicians, dental hygienists, dental nurses, dental technicians, dental therapists or orthodontic therapists (as the case may be) by virtue of Part 3 of the General Systems Regulations (having, in particular, successfully completed any adaptation period, or passed any aptitude test, that he may be required to undertake pursuant to that Part of those Regulations).”;

(b) in subsection (4)(c), for “(except where he is a national of an EEA State or a person within subsection (3)(a)(ii))” substitute “except where he is an exempt person,”;

(c) for subsection (5)(b) substitute—

“(b) in the case of an exempt person who holds a relevant qualification which—

(i) was granted otherwise than in a relevant European State, and

(ii) has been accepted by a relevant European State, other than the United Kingdom, as qualifying the person to practise in that State as a member of the profession or class to which the title applies,

shall take that acceptance into account.”; and

(d) omit subsection (7).

(1)

Section 36C was inserted by S.I. 2005/2011 and amended by S.I. 2006/1718.