Meaning of grandparented | Babel Free

Definitions

That satisfies older, but not current, rules or regulations

Canada, New-Zealand, not-comparable

Examples

“Also raised were the potential challenges long-standing practitioners might face in collecting documentation of their training for the grandparented registration process: Asking for transcripts or study reports may [create] great difficulties for those old practitioners, for these schools, or professors may not exist anymore [sic]. [CM] A small number of respondents opposed the grandparented registration process outright, arguing that all registrants should be required to [W]rite an exam in order to have a legal license!…no Grandfather law. [CM] However, Chinese medicine practitioners’ most pronounced concern around grandparented registration pertained to the issue of language.”

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