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Enforced by: GOC
Status: In Force
Penalty ceiling: Regulated

Does it bind you?

Business-side roles with duties under this instrument.

Any Person9 Director or Officer1

Plus 3 duties on the regulator, Crown ministers and public bodies — folded into the section list below.

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Any Person — also bound by 2684 other Acts

Human Medicines Regulations 2012 184 duties

Merchant Shipping Act 1995 144 duties

Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016 104 duties

Communications Act 2003 92 duties

Road Traffic Act 1988 92 duties

Director or Officer — also bound by 482 other Acts

Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016 162 duties

Companies Act 2006 126 duties

Insolvency Act 1986 77 duties

The Large and Medium-sized Companies and Groups (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 68 duties

Building Societies Act 1986 32 duties

What it requires

Regulations creating concrete business duties or carrying penalties, grouped as the instrument is structured. Titles link to the source text — blue means you’re leaving for legislation.gov.uk.

s.007 Application by a listed provider for approval of an event Regulated

Apply to GOC for approval of each CET event you provideAny Person

s.009 Grant or refusal of application to become a listed provider Regulated

Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator

GOC administrator must grant or refuse listed-provider applications and notify applicantsStatutory regulator

s.010 Grant or refusal of application for approval of an event Regulated

Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator

GOC administrator must decide CET event approval applications and notify applicantsStatutory regulator

s.011 Information to be provided by listed provider Regulated

Provide attendee details and CET statements for approved eventsAny Person

s.012 Requirement to obtain general CET points Regulated

Earn the required number of general CET pointsAny Person

s.013 Requirement to obtain specialist CET points Regulated

You must obtain specialist CET points for every specialty you holdAny Person

s.017 Obtaining of CET points Regulated

Earn the required CET points for approved training eventsAny Person

s.018 Requirement to keep records: listed providers Regulated

Keep CET training records in GOC-specified format for at least two periodsAny Person

s.019 Requirement to keep records: the administrator Regulated

Keep records of approved CET events and hand them over when appointment endsDirector or Officer

s.020 Requirement to keep records: registrants Regulated

Keep records of approved CET training events for two full periodsAny Person

s.021 Notification of points obtained Regulated

Notify GOC administrator of CPD points before each relevant period endsAny Person

s.022 Disputes as to points obtained Regulated

Respond to GOC CET point discrepancy with evidence within 28 daysAny Person

s.023 Notice of shortfall Regulated

Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator

GOC registrar must notify registrants of CET shortfall by 21 JanuaryStatutory regulator

14 other provisions — procedural and definitional

s.001 Citation and commencement

s.002 Interpretation

s.003 The scheme and the scheme administrators

s.004 Appointment of persons as administrators

s.005 Application to become a listed provider

s.006 Fee payable for application to be a listed provider

s.008 Application by a person undertaking an event outside the United Kingdom for approval of the event

s.014 Voluntary CET points

s.015 Calculation of CET points

s.016 Double-counting of certain specialist points for initial relevant period

s.024 Removal of registration or an entry relating to a specialty

s.025 Restoration of registration

s.026 Restoration of an entry relating to a specialty

s.paragraph/1 This Order may be cited as the General Optical Council...

Duty extraction and severity labels are Guvnor’s analysis of the instrument, not the instrument itself. Always verify against the linked source text.

The General Optical Council (Continuing Education and Training Rules) Order of Council 2005

Does it bind you?

Other Acts binding the same actors

What it requires