{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-recognition-of-professional-qualifications-and-implementation-of-international-recognition-agreements-amendment-regulations-2023/schedule-3/paragraph-41",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-recognition-of-professional-qualifications-and-implementation-of-international-recognition-agreements-amendment-regulations-2023/schedule-3/paragraph-41.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2023/9780348252552",
  "legislation_title": "The Recognition of Professional Qualifications and Implementation of International Recognition Agreements (Amendment) Regulations 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-recognition-of-professional-qualifications-and-implementation-of-international-recognition-agreements-amendment-regulations-2023",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/41",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "41",
  "heading": "Amendments to the Opticians Act 1989",
  "text": "In section 36 (interpretation), at the appropriate places, insert—\n““adaptation period” means a period of practice, subject to an assessment and, where necessary, accompanied by further training, which is supervised by a registered optometrist or registered dispensing optician;”;\n““aptitude test” means an assessment with the aim of determining whether a person has the competencies for the time being established under section 12(1)(a) in relation to being granted a qualification as an optometrist or a dispensing optician;”;\n““specified state professional” means a person who holds a specified state qualification;”;\n““specified state qualification” means a qualification as an optometrist or as a dispensing optician granted in one of the states specified in Schedule 1 to the Recognition of Professional Qualifications and Implementation of International Recognition Agreements (Amendment) Regulations 2023;”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Relevant amending instruments are S.I. 2005/848, 2007/3101, 2008/1774 and 2019/593."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2023/9780348252552/schedule/3/paragraph/41",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:42:36.984981+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}