reg 13 Transitional provisions relating to admission to the register
(1) This paragraph applies to a person who is not a person specified in paragraph (1A) ...— (a) who applies for admission to the register under article 9(1); (b) who is not registered on the date of coming into force of an order made under article 6(1) which relates to the profession in respect of which he is applying to be registered; (c) who has never been registered in respect of that profession— (i) under the 1960 Act or this Order, (ii) in the case of an operating department practitioner, in the AODP register, or (iii) in the case of a practitioner psychologist, in the BPS register or the AEP register; and (d) who applies for admission to the register in respect of that profession within the period of two years , or in the case of practitioner psychologists three years, beginning with the date mentioned in sub-paragraph (b) (“the relevant period”). (1A) This paragraph applies to a person who applies for admission to the register as a hearing aid dispenser on or after 1st April 2010. (1B) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (2) A person to whom paragraph (1) applies shall be treated as satisfying the requirements of article 9(2)(a) if he satisfies the Education and Training Committee, following any test of competence as it may require him to take— (a) that for a period of at least three out of the five years immediately preceding the date mentioned in paragraph (1)(a), or its equivalent on a part-time basis, he has been wholly or mainly engaged in the lawful, safe and effective practice of the profession in respect of which he wishes to be registered; or (b) that he has not so practised but he has undergone in the United Kingdom or elsewhere such additional training and experience as satisfies the Council that he has the requisite standard of proficiency for admission to the part of the register in respect of which he is applying. (3) The Council shall, having consulted such of those persons mentioned in article 3(14) as it considers appropriate, establish from time to time the criteria to which the Education and Training Committee shall have regard in reaching a decision under paragraph (2) and it shall publish those criteria.