Regulation 16 Choice of evidence of professional experience, adaptation period or aptitude test
A designated authority may not in any case in which a migrant had made application to take up or pursue a regulated profession require the migrant to comply with more than one of the following requirements, that is to say—
to produce evidence of professional experience;
successfully to complete an adaptation period;
to take and pass an aptitude test.
A designated authority wishing to apply to a migrant a requirement either to complete an adaptation period or to take an aptitude test shall, except in a case provided for as an exception by Regulation 6(2) of, and Schedule 3 to, the First General System Regulations or by paragraph (3) below, afford the migrant the right to choose between them.
In the case of a profession listed in the first column of the table in Schedule 7 the requirement shall be as specified in the second column of that table.