The European Union (Recognition of Professional Qualifications) Regulations 2015

Non-compliance

24.—(1) An applicant will no longer be entitled to provide services in the profession that the applicant is pursuing in the United Kingdom in accordance with this Part nor retain any temporary registration, if—

(a) the applicant becomes established in that profession in the United Kingdom; or

(b) the applicant is subject to a decision of the competent or judicial authority of the relevant European State in which the applicant is established which has the effect that the applicant is no longer lawfully established in that State or that the applicant is prohibited (even temporarily) from practising that profession there.

(2) Where—

(a) under regulation 15 an applicant should have, but has not, renewed (or further renewed) a declaration under that regulation; and

(b) under the professional rules concerned, a sanction is imposed by reference to the failure to renew,

the sanction is of no effect if, or so far as, it is not in the circumstances of the case proportionate to the failure to renew.

(3) Where under an enactment any register is maintained of persons engaged in the profession concerned, the competent authority for the profession, as a sanction for the failure to renew, may cause the applicant’s name to be removed from that register.

(4) For the purposes of paragraph (2)(b), paragraph (3) is part of the professional rules concerned.