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  "legislation": "uksi/1999/67",
  "legislation_title": "The European Communities (Recognition of Professional Qualifications) (Second General System) (Amendment) Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-communities-recognition-of-professional-qualifications-second-general-system-amendment-regulations-1999",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the European Communities (Recognition of Professional Qualifications) (Second General System) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/2374, “the principal Regulations”).\nNew provision is made in Regulation 25 of the principal regulations for reconciling the right of appeal of a migrant given by that regulation with any right of appeal afforded by any law, regulation or administrative provision or, as the case may be, rules governing a profession or professional association.\nThe remaining amendments take the form of the substitution of the lists in Schedules 1 to 5 for those in Part III of Schedule 1, Schedule 2, Schedule 3 and Schedule 7, respectively, of the principal Regulations and the addition of “trade mark agent” to the list of training in Part II of Schedule 5. The effect of the new lists is as follows.\nPart III of Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations, which lists for the purpose of Regulation 2(2)(c) of the principal Regulations (disapplication of Parts II to V) instruments pursuant to which the taking up and pursuit of professions is regulated in the United Kingdom, contains the following new entries:\nChapter/SI Number\nShort Title/Title\nS.I. 1997/348\nThe Merchant Shipping (Training and Certification) Regulations 1997\nS.I. 1998/20\nStreet Works (Qualification of Supervisors and Operatives) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998\nPart I of Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations, which lists for the purpose of Regulation 4 of the principal Regulations professions which are regulated by law or public authority, contains the following new entries:\nProfession\nDesignated Authority\nQualified Conveyancer (Scotland)\nThe Scottish Conveyancing and Executry Services Board\nExecutry Practitioner\nThe Scottish Conveyancing and Executry Services Board\nRegistered Gas Installer\nThe Council for Registered Gas Installers\nInsolvency Practitioner\nSecretary of State,\nThe Insolvency Practitioners Association Limited,\nThe Association of Chartered Certified Accountants,\nThe Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales,\nThe Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland,\nThe Institute of Chartered Accountants in Scotland,\nThe Law Society,\nThe Law Society of Northern Ireland,\nThe Law Society of Scotland\nNurse admitted to any of the following parts of the register–\nPart 2–Second level nurse trained in general nursing (England and Wales);\nPart 4–Second level nurse trained in the nursing of persons suffering from mental illness (England and Wales);\nPart 6–Second level nurse trained in the nursing of persons suffering from learning disabilities (England and Wales);\nPart 7–Second level nurse (Scotland and Northern Ireland)\nUnited Kingdom Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting\nCertified Technically Competent Person\nWaste Management Industry Training and Advisory Board\nRegistered Trade Mark Agent\nThe Institute of Trade Mark Agents\nListed Veterinary Nurse\nThe Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons\nPart II of Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations, which lists for the purpose of Regulation 4 of the principal Regulations professions which are regulated by professional associations, contains the following new entries:\nProfessional title\nDesignatory letters\nDesignated Authority\nAssociate of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators\nA.C.I.Arb\nChartered Institute of Arbitrators\nAssociate Member of The Chartered Institute of Marketing\nACIM\nThe Chartered Institute of Marketing\nLicentiate of The Chartered Institute of Marketing\nThe Chartered Institute of Marketing\nLicentiate of The Society of Dyers and Colourists\nLSDC\nThe Society of Dyers and Colourists\nSchedule 3 to the principal Regulations, which lists for the purpose of Regulation 3(1) of the principal Regulations certain bodies, courts or persons which are the appeal bodies for the professions listed there, contains the following new entries:\nProfession\nAppeal Body\nQualified Conveyancer (Scotland)\nCourt of Session\nExecutry Practitioner\nCourt of Session\nRegistered Trade Mark Agent\nThe Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks\nSchedule 7 to the principal Regulations, which lists for the purpose of Regulation 16(3) of the principal Regulations professions in respect of which the right of the migrant to choose between an adaptation period and an aptitude test is displaced, contains the following new entries:\nProfession\nRequirement\nQualified Conveyancer (Scotland)\nAdaptation Period\nExecutry Practitioner\nAdaptation Period\nInsolvency Practitioner\nAptitude test\nRegistered Trade Mark Agent\nAptitude test\nNo professions are removed from the principal Regulations by these regulations.",
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  "version": "current",
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