Part 3: Professional Qualifications and Regulations UK Market Access: Professional qualifications and regulation Section 25: Meaning of "qualified" UK resident
This section sets out when an individual is considered a "qualified" UK resident for the purposes of being able to rely on automatic recognition principle.
	Subsection (1) and (2) define "qualified" (in relation to UK residents) as meaning qualified (in accordance with subsection (3) to (5)) in any part of the UK other than the one in which recognition is being sought, to undertake the full range of activities which comprise the practice of the profession for which recognition is being sought.
	Subsection (3) to (5) explain what it means to be "qualified" in relation to those activities. To the extent that the relevant activities fall within a corresponding regulated profession in the other part, an individual must be qualified to access that profession (subsection (3)). Otherwise, an individual must meet any specific qualification requirements attaching to specific activities (subsection (4)). To the extent that the activities are unregulated in the other part, any UK resident is qualified (subsection (5)).
	Subsection (6) provides for the operation of subsection (3) in certain cases. Where there are corresponding regulated professions in the two parts of the UK, an individual cannot rely on the ability to undertake the activities outside of a regulated profession in the ‘other part’ (subsection (6)(a)); and where there are overlapping professions in the ‘other part’, only qualifications to access the profession closest to the one for which recognition is being sought count (subsection (6)(b)).
	Subsection (7) provides that only qualifications obtained in the UK, and experience obtained mainly in the UK can be relied on for the purposes of this section. How to determine where a qualification is obtained is explained in section 29(6).