Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 1998
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1998/2623 |
| Year | 1998 |
1998 No. 2623
NURSES, MIDWIVES AND HEALTH VISITORS
The Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 1998
Made 26th October 1998
Laid before Parliament 27th October 1998
Coming into force 17th November 1998
The Secretary of State, in exercise of powers conferred on him by sections 3(3) and (4) and 7(2) of the Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors Act 19971and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, having consulted the United Kingdom Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting in accordance with section 7(5) of that Act, hereby makes the following Order:—
Citation and commencement
1. This Order may be cited as the Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 1998 and shall come into force on 17th November 1998.
Amendment of the Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors (Educational Policy Advisory Committee) Order 1983
2. In the Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors (Educational Policy Advisory Committee) Order 19832, in article 2(5)(c)(iii), for “mental handicap” substitute “learning disabilities”.
Amendment of the Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors (Parts of the Register) Order 1983
3. In the Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors (Parts of the Register) Order 19833, in Schedule 1 (Parts of the Register), in each of the entries for parts 5, 6 and 144, for “mental handicap” substitute “learning disabilities”.
Effect on registration
4. Nothing in this Order shall affect—
(a) the continuing registration of a nurse who is registered in part 5, 6 or 14 of the register on the day on which this Order comes into force;
(b) the restoration to any of those parts of the register of a nurse who has been removed from that part; or
(c) the registration in any of those parts of the register of a person who would have been entitled to registration in that part if this Order had not been made, by virtue of being a nurse trained in the nursing of persons suffering from mental handicap or, as the case may be, a nurse qualified following a course of preparation in mental handicap nursing.
Frank Dobson
One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State,
Department of Health
26th October 1998
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