# The European Qualifications (Health and Social Care Professions) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019, Paragraph 13: Interpretation of saved provisions

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

Where a provision continues to apply by virtue of this Part, it is to be read as if—
(a) in regulation 2 of the 2018 Regulations—
(i) in paragraph (1), there were inserted at the appropriate place—
““enforceable EU right” means a right recognised and available in domestic law, immediately before IP completion day, by virtue of section 2(1) of the European Communities Act 1972;”;
(ii) in paragraph (2), for sub-paragraphs (a) to (c) there were substituted—
“(a) a person who, immediately before IP completion day, was a national of a relevant European State,
(b) a person who, immediately before IP completion day, was a national of the United Kingdom and, at that time, was seeking access to, or pursuing, the social work profession by virtue of an enforceable EU right, or
(c) a person who, immediately before IP completion day, was not a national of a relevant European State, but at that time was, by virtue of an enforceable EU right, entitled to be treated, for the purposes of access to and pursuit of the social work profession, no less favourably than a national of a relevant European State.”;
(iii) in paragraph (3), for “is not” there were substituted “was not, immediately before IP completion day”;
(b) in any reference to a relevant European State other than the United Kingdom, the words “other than the United Kingdom” were omitted;
(c) any reference to the European Communities (Recognition of Professional Qualifications) Regulations 2007 or the European Union (Recognition of Professional Qualifications) Regulations 2015 were—
(i) in relation to anything done before IP completion day, to those Regulations as they had effect at that time;
(ii) otherwise, to those Regulations as (and only to the extent that) they have effect, on or after IP completion day, in relation to an entitlement which arose before IP completion day or arises as a result of something done before IP completion day.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2019/593/schedule/11/paragraph/13 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/european-qualifications-health-and-social-care-professions-amendment-etc-eu-exit-regulations-2019/schedule-11/paragraph-13
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