{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-optical-council-registration-rules-order-of-council-2005/schedule/paragraph-20",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-optical-council-registration-rules-order-of-council-2005/schedule/paragraph-20.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/1478",
  "legislation_title": "The General Optical Council (Registration Rules) Order of Council 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-optical-council-registration-rules-order-of-council-2005",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/20",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Removal of registration",
  "text": "(1) The registrar may remove a registrant's name from the appropriate register if he is not satisfied that—\n(a) he has received from the registrant by the relevant date a fully completed application form for retention of registration which is accordance with rule 18 (whether or not the registrant was sent or received an application form pursuant to rule 17(2));\n(b) the registrant is entitled to be registered under section 8, 8A(3) or 9;\n(c) the registrant is covered by a policy of insurance which meets the requirements of section 10A (insurance for individual registrants and persons applying for their names to be registered) ; or\n(d) the application fee has been paid.\n(1A) The registrar may remove the entry of an independent prescribing specialty against the name of a registrant whose name is entered on an appropriate register if he is not satisfied that that registrant is entitled, under rule 13, to have that specialty entered against his name on that register.\n(2) Where, pursuant to this rule, the registrar removes from a register a registrant’s name or the entry against his name for an independent prescribing specialty, the registrar shall send a notice to the registrant giving details of the action taken and stating the reasons for it.\n(3) The “relevant date” for the purposes of paragraph (1)—\n(a) in relation to a student registrant, means 31st August of each year (commencing with 31st August 2007);\n(b) in relation to any other registrant, means the 31st March of each year (commencing with 31st March 2006).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. rule 20(1A) inserted (coming into force in accordance with Sch. rule 1(1) of the amending S.I.) by The General Optical Council (Therapeutics and Contact Lens Specialties) Rules Order of Council 2008 (S.I. 2008/1940), Sch. rule 2(7)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. rule 20(2) substituted (coming into force in accordance with Sch. rule 1(1) of the amending S.I.) by The General Optical Council (Therapeutics and Contact Lens Specialties) Rules Order of Council 2008 (S.I. 2008/1940), Sch. rule 2(7)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "Section 10A was inserted by S.I. 2005/848."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/1478/schedule/paragraph/20",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:58:11.715403+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "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."
}