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Article 2 InterpretationI1

United Kingdom

(1)

In these Rules–

  • “the Act” means the Chiropractors Act 1994;

  • “applicant” means (except in Rules 9 and 10 and paragraphs 3 to 5 of Schedule 2) a person applying for registration under Rule 4;

  • “registration” means registration as a registered chiropractor in the register; and

  • “the transitional period” means the period of two years beginning with the opening of the register.

F1(2)

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F2(2A)

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F3(3)

Two people are to be treated as related by birth, marriage or civil partnership for the purposes of these Rules if—

(a)

they are spouses or civil partners of each other; or

(b)

one or the spouse or civil partner of one of them bears to the other, spouse or civil partner of the other a relationship of lineal descendant, brother, sister, nephew, niece or first cousin, and

  • F4“spouse or civil partner” for this purpose includes a former spouse or civil partner and a partner other than a spouse or civil partner

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Rule 2(2) omitted (1.9.2009) by virtue of The General Chiropractic Council (Registration) (Amendment) Rules Order of Council 2009 (S.I. 2009/2305), Sch. rules 1, 3

F2

Rule 2(2A) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The European Qualifications (Health and Social Care Professions) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/593), reg. 1(2), Sch. 7 para. 12(a) (with reg. 12A, Sch. 7 Pt. 2) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1394, regs. 4, 15); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F3

Rule 2(3) substituted (5.12.2005) by The Civil Partnership Act 2004 (Amendments to Subordinate Legislation) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/2114), art. 2(2), reg. 1, Sch. 2 para. 1(2)

F4

Words in rule 2(3) substituted (2.12.2019) by The Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1458), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 55

Commencement

I1

Rule 2 in force at 15.6.1999, see rule 1

Notes on Part

Footnotes

f1

1994 c. 17; see section 43 for the meaning of “prescribed”.