ACCA Practising Certificate

Hi All

This is my first time on this site, so I trust you will bear
with me if some of these questions have been asked before. 

I have had my PCTR acceptance letter for a few years now and
I am looking at applying for a practising certificate. I wonder if anyone can
advise me on the points I raise below:

1.  Have
   all recent applicants for a practising cert attended the admissions
   hearing? For those who attended, were you expected to answer any technical
   or regulatory questions?
2. Has
   anyone applied for a part-time practising certificate while not being
   employed in other work? ACCA specify being employed in another job and
   earning less than £5000. (My plan is to apply for the full Cert when I have
   built things up a bit more by start of next year).
3. Continuity
   agreement – the people I know who are qualified are not in practice. I
   notice that someone on this site has advertised for someone to be party to
   their continuity agreement. Is that normal? How else have others
   approached this?

 Kind regards

 SamJay