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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-optical-council-registration-appeals-rules-order-of-council-2005/schedule/paragraph-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2005/1477",
  "legislation_title": "The General Optical Council (Registration Appeals Rules) Order of Council 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-optical-council-registration-appeals-rules-order-of-council-2005",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Rules—\n“appellant” means–\n(a) a person making an appeal under paragraph 4(1) of Schedule 1A (appeals from an appealable registration decision); and\n(b) in relation to a hearing, includes any representative of that person who attends a hearing in accordance with the provisions of rule 14(2);\n“applicant” means—\n(a) a person applying for restoration of registration under section 13K(1) (which provides for restoration to a register following an erasure of registration or removal of an entry relating to a specialty on a direction by the Fitness to Practise Committee); and\n(b) in relation to a hearing, includes any representative of that person who attends a hearing in accordance with the provisions of rule 14(2);\n“clinical adviser” means a clinical adviser appointed under section 23E(1)(a) (other advisers);\n“the Council” means the General Optical Council;\n“Fitness to Practise Committee” means the Committee referred to in section 5C(1) (the Fitness to Practise Committee);\n“hearing” means a hearing of the Registration Appeals Committee to determine–\n(a) an appeal made under paragraph 4(1) of Schedule 1A; or\n(b) whether to give a direction under section 13K(6) for the registrar to restore to the register a registrant’s name or a registrant’s entry relating to a specialty;\n“legal adviser” means a legal adviser appointed under section 23D(1) (legal advisers);\n“practice address” means—\n(a) in relation to an individual, the address of a practice or place of business from which he practises the profession of an optometrist or a dispensing optician, other than an address at which he practises that profession–\n(i) only in an emergency,\n(ii) in the place of an individual registrant who is ill or on holiday,\n(iii) as a fee-earning visiting practitioner, or\n(iv) on less than twelve days in any year;\n(b) in relation to a body corporate, the address of any practice or place of business from which it carries on the business of an optometrist or a dispensing optician, or both;\n“registrant”, in relation to a hearing—\n(a) includes any representative of the registrant attending the hearing in accordance with the provisions of rule 14(2) or (3); and\n(b) means, for the purposes of the service of any notification or other notice under these Rules or the provision of information, a person whom the registrar has been informed is instructed to represent him;\n“registrar” except in rule 7(2)(d)(ii) means the registrar of the Council referred to in section 1(3) (constitution and functions of the Council);\n“Registration Appeals Committee” means the Committee referred to in section 5A(1) (the Registration Appeals Committee);\n“regulatory body” means a regulatory body which has the function of authorising persons to practise as members of a health or social care profession;\n“respondent”–\n(a) in relation to an appeal made under paragraph 4(1) of Schedule 1A, means the registrar or the Council (as the case may be);\n(b) in relation to an application under section 13K(1) for restoration of registration or restoration of a registrant’s entry relating to a specialty, means the Council;\n“specialist adviser” means a specialist adviser appointed under section 23E(1)(b); and\n“specialty” means a specialty or level of proficiency particulars of which may, by virtue of rule 10 of the General Optical Council (Registration) Rules 2005, be entered in a register against a registrant’s name.\n(2) In these Rules any reference to a numbered section, or to a numbered Schedule, is a reference to the section of, or Schedule to, the Opticians Act 1989 which bears that number.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Schedule 1A was inserted by S.I. 2005/848."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 13K was inserted by S.I. 2005/848."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Section 5C was inserted by S.I. 2005/848."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Section 5A was inserted by S.I. 2005/848."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "The Rules are scheduled to S.I. 2005/ 1478"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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