# The General Optical Council (Continuing Professional Development) Rules Order of Council 2021, Paragraph 26: Restoration of registration


(1) This rule applies where the registrar has received an application for a person’s name to be restored to the register under—
(a) rule 3(1)(b) of the Registration Rules (restoration following removal by the registrar), or
(b) section 13K(1) (restoration following erasure of a name on a direction of the Fitness to Practise Committee).
(2) In the case of an application to which paragraph (1) applies, an applicant must have obtained—
(a) 12 general CPD points in the 12 months prior to the month in which the application is received, or
(b) if the first entry of the applicant’s name in the register of optometrists or in the register of dispensing opticians was made in the 12 months preceding the month in which the application is received, a number of general CPD points equivalent to the number of whole months between (and not including) the month in which that first entry was made and the month in which the application is received.
(3) The events undertaken for the purposes of obtaining the CPD points required under paragraph (2) must comply with the CPD requirements under rules 13, 14, and 15.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2021/1234/schedule/paragraph/26 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/general-optical-council-continuing-professional-development-rules-order-of-council-2021/schedule/paragraph-26
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