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GENERAL NURSING COUNCIL (ENGLAND AND WALES) RULES MODIFICATION ORDER, 1923.

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JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
CitationSI 1923/804
Year1923

1923 No. 804

NURSES, ENGLAND

4. Rules of the General Nursing Council

THE GENERAL NURSING COUNCIL (ENGLAND AND WALES) RULES MODIFICATION ORDER, 1923.

PRESENT,

The King's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.

9 & 10 Geo. 5. c. 94.

Whereas a humble Address has been presented to His Majesty by the Commons House of Parliament, pursuant to subsection (4) of Section 3 of the Nurses Registration Act, 1919(a), praying that a certain amendment to the Rules made by the General Nursing Council of England and Wales(b) (which said amendment was approved by the Minister of Health on the 24th day of May, 1923) might be modified in the manner set forth in the said Address:

Now, therefore, His Majesty is pleased, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, in pursuance of the powers conferred on Him by the said Nurses Registration Act, 1919, to order that the said amendment be modified in accordance with the terms of the said Address, and it is hereby ordered as follows:—

1. The amendment of Rule made by the General Nursing Council of England and Wales and approved by the Minister of Health on the 24th day of May, 1923, shall be modified and shall have effect as follows:—

"After Rule 9(1) (f) insert—

'(g) In the case of a nurse who was at 1st November, 1916, engaged in actual practice and who produces the following evidences of knowledge and experience:—

'(a) a certificate of good character;

'(b) a certificate signed by a matron of a general hospital or an infirmary or by two medical men setting out that the applicant has been in attendance upon the sick in the capacity of a nurse for a period of not less than three years prior to the 1st November, 1919; and

'(c) a certificate signed by a registered nurse and by two medical men, one of whom shall be on the staff of a general hospital, setting out that the applicant has adequate knowledge and experience of medical and surgical nursing and is competent to attend upon the sick in the capacity of a nurse:

(a) Section 3(4) of the 1919 Act repealed by the Nurses Act, 1943 (6 & 7 Geo...

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