# The General Optical Council (Continuing Education and Training Rules) Order of Council 2005, Paragraph 13: Requirement to obtain specialist CET points


(1) A registrant against whose name in an appropriate register one or more entries relating to a specialty is made shall obtain in respect of each specialty the number of specialist CET points determined under paragraphs (2) and (3).
(2) In respect of the initial relevant period, the required number of specialist CET points is the number equivalent to—
(a) where the entry relating to the specialty is in the register on 30th June 2005, the number of whole months in the initial relevant period during which he has the entry in the appropriate register; and
(b) where the entry is made on or after 1st July 2005, half the number of whole months during the initial relevant period during which he has the entry in the appropriate register.
(3) In respect of each subsequent relevant period, the required number of specialist CET points is the number equivalent to half the number of whole months during the relevant period for which he has the entry relating to the specialty in the appropriate register.
(4) For the purposes of this rule, no account may be taken of half numbers.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/1473/schedule/paragraph/13 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/general-optical-council-continuing-education-and-training-rules-order-of-council-2005/schedule/paragraph-13
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