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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-optical-council-registration-rules-order-of-council-2005/schedule/paragraph-23",
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  "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/23",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Incorrect information recorded in a register",
  "text": "(1) If the registrar becomes aware that a registrant has failed (or may have failed) to comply with rule 22, the registrar may serve a notification on the registrant of the respect in which the information held by him appears to be incorrect or incomplete—\n(a) inviting the registrant to notify him, within the period of 28 days beginning with the date of service of the notification, as to—\n(i) the correct information,\n(ii) if applicable, the date upon which the old information became incorrect, and\n(iii) the reason why the correct information has not previously been brought to the attention of the registrar; and\n(b) warning the registrant that if at the end of the period of 28 days—\n(i) the registrar is not satisfied that the information provided by the registrant is accurate or complete, or\n(ii) has received no response to the notification,\nhe may remove from the appropriate register the registrant's name or the entry relating to a specialty to which the information relates.\n(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply in a case falling within rule 20.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/1478/schedule/paragraph/23",
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  },
  "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."
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