# The European Communities (Recognition of Professional Qualifications) (Second General System) Regulations 1996, Regulation 16: Choice of evidence of professional experience, adaptation period or aptitude test


(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—
(i) to produce evidence of professional experience;
(ii) successfully to complete an adaptation period;
(iii) to take and pass an aptitude test.
(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.
(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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/2374/regulation/16 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/european-communities-recognition-of-professional-qualifications-second-general-system-regulations-1996/regulation-16
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