# The General Optical Council (Continuing Professional Development) Rules Order of Council 2021, Paragraph 15: Requirement to undertake peer review events


(1) This rule and rule 16 apply to—
(a) a registered optometrist,
(b) a registered dispensing optician,
(c) a person seeking restoration as a registered optometrist or a registered dispensing optician,
(d) a registrant against whose name particulars of a specialty are entered in the appropriate register, and
(e) a person seeking restoration of an entry for a specialty, the particulars of which are to be entered against their name in the appropriate register.
(2) The continuing professional development events undertaken for the purposes of obtaining the CPD points required within the specified period under rules 11, 12, 26 and 27 by a person to whom this rule applies must include one peer review event, except where paragraph (3) applies.
(3) Paragraph (2) is not to apply where in the last 12 months of the relevant period—
(a) the first entry was made of the person’s name in the appropriate register, or
(b) in relation to a specialty, particulars of that specialty were first entered against the person’s name in the appropriate register.
(4) Where this rule applies to a person against whose name in the register particulars of one or more specialties are entered, the discussions undertaken for the purposes of the peer review event must relate to one of those specialties.
(5) In the application of this rule to rules 26 and 27 “registrant” is construed as a person seeking restoration.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2021/1234/schedule/paragraph/15 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/general-optical-council-continuing-professional-development-rules-order-of-council-2021/schedule/paragraph-15
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