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Amendment of section 31 of Principal Act.
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6.— Section 31(1) of the Principal Act is amended—
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(a) by substituting the following for paragraph (e):
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“(e) procedures for the assessment of professional qualifications, training, experience, aptitude tests or adaptation periods for the purposes of sections 38(2)(c), 91(1)(c)(i)(II) and 91(5)(c)(i)(II);”,
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(b) by inserting the following paragraph after paragraph (f):
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“(fa) criteria or conditions, including criteria or conditions as to further education, training or experience, for persons who wish to resume the practice of that profession after not having practised the profession for a period specified in the bye-laws, including criteria or conditions relating to—
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(i) the education and training of those persons,
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(ii) the manner of verifying that those persons possess the relevant competencies, or
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(iii) any other matter where, in the opinion of the registration board concerned, the specification in bye-laws of criteria or conditions relating to that matter is necessary or desirable for the protection of the public;”,
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(c) in paragraph (g) by inserting “other than where paragraph (fa) applies” after “profession”, and
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(d) by inserting the following paragraph after paragraph (i):
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“(ia) the practice of the designated profession, and the period that the registration board considers to be sufficient in the public interest, and that is not less than 500 hours nor more than 4,000 hours, during which that practice is to be engaged in, for persons to be registered under section 91;”.
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