Hairdressers (Registration) Act 1964
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1964 c. 89 |
| Year | 1964 |
(1) There shall be a body to be called the Hairdressing Council which shall have the functions assigned to it by this Act.(2) The Hairdressing Council shall be constituted in accordance with Part I of Schedule 1 to this Act and the supplementary provisions contained in Part II of that Schedule shall have effect with respect to the Council.The Hairdressing Council shall
served a period of apprenticeship; orattended a course of training approved by the Council under section 4 of this Act conducted at an institution so approved or partly at one such institution and partly at another or others; andhe has attained a reasonable and sufficient standard to qualify him to practise the form of hairdressing in respect of which he makes the application(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(3) On registering any person under this section the Council shall issue to him a certificate of registration.any course of training which the Hairdressing Council considers is designed to confer on persons completing it sufficient knowledge and skill for the practice of hairdressing;any qualification which, as the result of an examination taken in conjunction with a course of training approved by the Hairdressing Council under this section, is granted to candidates reaching a standard at the examination indicating, in the opinion of the Council, that they have sufficient knowledge and skill to practise hairdressing;any institution which the Hairdressing Council considers is properly organised and equipped for conducting the whole or any part of a course of training approved by the Hairdressing Council under this section;a course of training prepared by the Hairdressing Council and conducted either under arrangements made by the Hairdressing Council or otherwise;a qualification awarded by the Hairdressing Council as a result of an examination held under arrangements made by the Hairdressing Council.(3) The withdrawal of an approval under this section shall not prejudice the registration or entitlement to registration of any person who was registered or entitled to registration by virtue of that approval immediately before it was withdrawn.(4) Any reference in this section to a body or person affected, in relation to an approval, is a reference to the body or person who applied for the approval.It shall be the duty of the Hairdressing Council to keep themselves informed of the nature of the instruction given at institutions approved under section 4 of this Act to persons attending courses approved under that section and of the examinations in hairdressing the passing of which may be prescribed by the Council as being a condition of registration under this Act. regulating the making of applications for registration and providing for the evidence to be produced in support of any such application;providing for the notification to the Council of any change in the particulars entitling a person to be registered;prescribing a fee to be charged on the entry of a name in, or the restoration of a name to, the register;prescribing a fee to be charged in respect of the retention in the register of any name in any year subsequent to the year in which that name was first entered in the register;authorising the registrar of the Hairdressing Council to refuse to enter a name in or restore it to the register until a fee prescribed for the entry or restoration has been paid and to remove from the register the name of a person who, after the prescribed notices and warnings, fails to pay the fee prescribed in respect of the retention of that name in the register;prescribing anything required or authorised to be prescribed by the provisions of this Act relating to the register.(2) Rules under this section which provide for the erasure of a name from the register on failure to pay a fee shall provide for its restoration thereto on the making of the prescribed application in that behalf and on payment of that fee and any additional fee prescribed in respect of the restoration.(3) Rules under this section prescribing fees may provide for the charging of different fees in different classes of cases.(1) The Hairdressing Council shall cause the register to be published (2) Where the register is not published in any year after the first publication thereof, the Council shall cause any alterations in the entries in the register which have been made since the last publication thereof to be published within that year.the investigating committee shall be charged with the duty of conducting a preliminary investigation into any case where it is alleged that a person registered by the Hairdressing Council is liable to have his name removed from the register, and of deciding whether the case should be referred to the disciplinary committee; andthe disciplinary committee shall be charged with the duty of considering and determining any case referred to it by the investigating committee and any other case of which the disciplinary committee has cognisance under subsection (3) of the next following section.(2) The provisions of Part I of Schedule 2 to this Act shall have effect with respect to the constitution of the investigating and disciplinary committees, and the provisions of Part II of that Schedule shall have effect with respect to the procedure of the disciplinary committee.a person who is registered by the Hairdressing Council is convicted by any court in the United Kingdom of a criminal offence which, in the opinion
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