Part 3: Professional Qualifications and Regulations UK Market Access: Professional qualifications and regulation Section 29: Interpretation of Part 3
This section defines certain terms used in this Part of the Act (or provides for them to be read in certain ways in certain cases).
	Subsection (1) provides that the ability to practise a profession includes being able to undertake the activities that make up a profession, use a professional title or be registered where this is required.
	Subsection (2) ensures that, where a qualification attaches to a particular professional activity, that requirement only falls within the scope of section 26 if it is essential to the practice of the profession generally.
	Subsections (3) to (5) deal with cases where there are two or more routes to practise and none of them complies with section 26. For the purposes of the automatic recognition principle, a qualified UK resident gets the benefit of the least demanding route. For example, if those with qualification A were allowed to practise the profession without further individual assessment and those with qualification B were allowed to practise the profession only after a further individual assessment, a qualified UK resident would be automatically recognised without having to undergo the individual assessment.
	Subsection (6) provides that where a qualification is to be treated as "obtained" depends on where the body that issues it is based. That in turn is to depend on where the registered office, head office or principal place of operation of the body is.
	Subsection (7) avoids circularity by ensuring that, when the Part describes the sorts of provision that it affects, the effect of the Part on those provisions is to be disregarded.
	Subsection (8) defines various other key terms in this Part.