{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-communities-recognition-of-professional-qualifications-second-general-system-regulations-1996/regulation-16",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/2374",
  "legislation_title": "The European Communities (Recognition of Professional Qualifications) (Second General System) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-communities-recognition-of-professional-qualifications-second-general-system-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/16",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Choice of evidence of professional experience, adaptation period or aptitude test",
  "text": "(1) 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—\n(i) to produce evidence of professional experience;\n(ii) successfully to complete an adaptation period;\n(iii) to take and pass an aptitude test.\n(2) 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.\n(3) 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.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/2374/regulation/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:35:26.262855+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."
}