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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-communities-recognition-of-professional-qualifications-second-general-system-regulations-1996/schedule-5/paragraph-4",
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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": "schedule/5/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Technical sector",
  "text": "Training for the following:\nIn Italy:\nbuilding surveyor (`geometra'),\nland surveyor (`perito agrario'),\nwhich represents secondary technical courses of a total duration of at least 13 years, comprising eight years' compulsory schooling followed by five years' secondary study, including three years vocational study, culminating in the Technical Baccalaureat examination, and supplemented,\n(i) for building surveyors by: either a traineeship lasting at least two years in a professional office, or five years' work experience,\n(ii) for land surveyors, by the completion of a practical traineeship lasting at least two years,\nfollowed by the State Examination.\nIn the Netherlands:\nbailiff (`gerechtsderuwaarder'),\ndental-prosthesis maker (“tandprotheticus”),\nwhich represents a course of study and vocational training:\n(i) in the case of the bailiff (`gerechtsdeurwaarder'), totalling nineteen years, comprising eight years' compulsory schooling followed by eight years' secondary education including four years' technical education culminating in a State examination and supplemented by three years' theoretical and practical vocational training,\n(ii) in the case of the dental-prosthesis maker (“tandprotheticus”), totalling at least 15 years of full time training and three years of part time training, comprising eight years of primary education, four years of general secondary education, completion of three years of vocational training, involving theoretical and practical training as a dental technician, supplemented by three years of part time training as a dental prosthesis-maker, culminating in an examination.\nIn Austria:\nforester (“Förster”),\ntechnical consulting (“Technisches Büro”),\nlabour leasing (“Überlassung von Arbeitskräften-Arbeitsleihe”),\nemployment agent (“Arbeitsvermittlung”),\ninvestment adviser (“Vermögensberator”),\nprivate investigator (“Berufsdetektiv”),\nsecurity guard (“Bewachungsgewerbe”),\nreal estate agent (“Immobilienmakler”),\nreal estate manager (“Immobilienverwalter”),\nadvertising and promotion agent (“Werbeagentur”),\nbuilding project organiser (“Bauträger/Bauorganisator/Baubetreuer”),\ndebt-collecting agent (“Inkassobüro/Inkassoinstitut”),\nwhich represents education and training of a total duration of at least 15 years, comprising eight years' compulsory schooling followed by five years' secondary technical or commercial study, culminating in a technical or commercial mature level qualifying examination, supplemented by at least two years' workplace education and training culminating in a professional examination,\ninsurance consultant (“Berater in Versicherungsangelegenheiten”),\nwhich represents an education and training course of a total duration of 15 years and includes six years' training followed within a structured training framework, divided into an apprenticeship of three-years' duration and a three-year period of professional practice and training, culminating in an examination,\nmaster builder/planning and technical calculation (“Planender Baumeister”),\nmaster woodbuilder/planning and technical calculation (“Planender Zimmermeister”),\nwhich represents education and training of a total duration of at least 18 years, including at least nine years' vocational training divided into four years of secondary technical study and five years of professional practice and training culminating in a professional examination conferring the rights to exercise the profession and to train apprentices, in so far as this training relates to the right to plan buildings, to make technical calculations and to supervise construction work (“the Maria Theresian privilege”).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/67",
      "affecting_title": "The European Communities (Recognition of Professional Qualifications) (Second General System) (Amendment) Regulations 1999"
    },
    {
      "type": "am",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/200",
      "affecting_title": "The European Communities (Recognition of Professional Qualifications) (Second General System) (Amendment) Regulations 2001"
    },
    {
      "type": "subst",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/200",
      "affecting_title": "The European Communities (Recognition of Professional Qualifications) (Second General System) (Amendment) Regulations 2001"
    }
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  },
  "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."
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