| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1975 c. 35 |
| Year | 1975 |
The Worshipful Company of Farriers (hereinafter referred to as “(1) There shall be established a body called the Farriers Registration Council (hereinafter referred to as “the Council”) which shall be a body corporate with perpetual succession and a common seal and shall have the general function of carrying out the powers and duties conferred upon it by this Act.(2) The provisions of Schedule 1 to this Act shall have effect for determining the constitution and powers of the Council and for regulating its proceedings.(1) The registrar appointed by the Council in accordance with the provisions of Schedule 1 to this Act shall establish and maintain a register which shall be divided into Parts as hereinafter provided.(2) The registrar shall cause to be entered in the appropriate Part of the register the name and prescribed particulars of every person who, being qualified for registration, has applied in the prescribed manner for registration and has paid the prescribed fee.(2A) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(3) The register shall be kept at the offices of the Council and shall be made available for public inspection at all reasonable times without charge.(4) The Council shall cause the register to be printed and published as often as it thinks fit.prescribing a fee to be charged on the entry of a name in the register or on the restoration of any entry to the register;prescribing a fee to be charged in respect of the retention in the register of the name of a person in any year subsequent to the year in which he was first registered;authorising the registrar, notwithstanding anything in this Act, to refuse to make in, or restore to, the register any entry until a fee prescribed by rules under this section has been paid.(2) Rules under this section may authorise the registrar to remove from the register the name of a person who, after such notices and warning as may be prescribed by the rules, fails to pay a fee prescribed under paragraph (b) of the foregoing subsection.(3) If, within such period as may be prescribed by rules under this section, any person whose name has been removed from the register in accordance with rules made by virtue of the last foregoing subsection pays the fee due from him, together with such additional sum (if any) as may be so prescribed, his name shall be restored to the register and, if the Council so directs, shall be deemed for all purposes not to have been removed therefrom.(4) Rules under this section prescribing fees may provide for the charging of different fees in different cases and may provide that fees shall not be chargeable in prescribed cases.(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .If any person wilfully procures or attempts to procure the entry of his name in the register by making or producing or causing to be made or produced any false or fraudulent representation or declaration, either orally or in writing, he shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding (a) every deceased person;(b) every person who has applied for his name to be removed; and(c) every person whose name has been ordered to be removed under section 15 of this Act.that on the 1st January 1976 his name was registered in the Register of Farriers kept by the Company;that he has satisfied such conditions as to apprenticeship or training or both as the Council may prescribe and has passed a prescribed examination;that he has completed a course of training as a farrier in Her Majesty’s Army and has passed a prescribed examination;that he is or has been registered in Part II or in Part IV of the register and has passed a prescribed examination; F35orgranted otherwise than in F36Great Britain; andfor the time being accepted for the purposes of this subsection by the Council,. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .otherwise than as an apprentice or while undergoing a course of training, regularly engaged in the shoeing of horses in a business which consists exclusively of such shoeing or is the business of a blacksmith or general smith of which the shoeing of horses forms a part; orpractising as a farrier in Her Majesty’s Army.
