Health and Social Care Professionals Act 2005

42A

F68[Performance of functions under section 27A.

42A. (1) (a) A registration board shall acknowledge receipt in writing of an application by a person for the assessment of his or her professional qualifications under F69[section 27A(2)(b)] not later than on the expiry of the one month period that begins when the application is submitted, and include in that acknowledgement

(i) a statement as to whether all documents required for that assessment have been submitted, or

(ii) a list of one or more than one further document required to be submitted before the assessment may be undertaken.

(b) If one or more than one further document is submitted in compliance with paragraph (a)(ii) (or otherwise), the registration board shall acknowledge receipt in writing of that further document or those further documents not later than on the expiry of the one month period that begins with that submission, and subparagraphs (i) and (ii) of paragraph (a) shall apply to acknowledgements under this paragraph, with all necessary modifications.

(2) The registration board shall, not later than on the expiry of the 4 month period that begins when the application (and, if applicable, the further document or documents referred to in subsection (1)(b)) is acknowledged, notify the applicant in writing of its decision in relation to the assessment.]

Annotations

Amendments:

F68

Inserted (1.02.2013) by Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Act 2012 (46/2012), s. 9, S.I. No. 23 of 2013.

F69

Substituted (17.01.2017) by European Union (Recognition of Professional Qualifications) Regulations 2017 (S.I. No. 8 of 2017), reg. 92(c), in effect as per reg. 2.