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

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273.  After article 13 insert—

Visiting health professionals from relevant European States

13A.(1) This article applies to an exempt person (“V”) who is lawfully established, in a relevant European State other than the United Kingdom (“State A”), as a member of one of the relevant professions (“the established profession”).

(2) Paragraph (3) applies if V has the benefit of regulation 8 of the General Systems Regulations in connection with the provision by V of relevant services in the United Kingdom on a temporary and occasional basis (V having complied with any requirements imposed under Part 2 of those Regulations in connection with the provision by V of relevant services).

(3) V is entitled to be registered in the part of the register relating to the established profession; and the Registrar shall give effect to the entitlement.

(4) If V is entitled under paragraph (3) to be registered, but is not registered in the part of the register relating to the established profession, V shall be treated as being registered in that part.

(5) V’s entitlement under paragraph (3) ceases if V ceases, whether as a result of the operation of regulation 17 of the General Systems Regulations or otherwise, to have the benefit of regulation 8 of those Regulations in connection with the provision by V of relevant services in the United Kingdom on a temporary and occasional basis.

(6) If—

(a)V’s entitlement under paragraph (3) ceases by reason of the operation of paragraph (5), and

(b)V is registered,

the Registrar may remove V’s name from the register.

(7) Paragraph (8) applies if—

(a)V’s establishment in State A is subject to a condition relating to V’s practice of the established profession,

(b)V’s name is registered in the part of the register relating to the established profession, and

(c)for any of the purposes of this Order it falls to be decided whether V’s fitness to practise is or may be impaired on the ground of misconduct.

(8) The matters that may be counted as misconduct include (in particular) any act or omission by V during the course of the provision by V of relevant services in the United Kingdom on a temporary and occasional basis that is, or would be if the condition applied in relation to practice of the established profession outside State A, a breach of the condition.

(9) In paragraphs (7) and (8) “condition” includes limitation.

(10) Paragraphs (1) to (6) are not to be taken to prejudice the application, in relation to registrants, of any other provision of this Order under which a registrant’s name may be removed from the register or under which a registrant’s registration may be suspended.

(11) In this article “relevant services” means services provided in pursuit of the established profession..

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