UNITED KINGDOM STATUTORY INSTRUMENT
1997 No. 1121
PROFESSIONS SUPPLEMENTARY TO MEDICINE
The Professions Supplementary to Medicine (Arts Therapists Board) Order of Council 1997
Made 25th March 1997
Coming into force 26th March 1997
At the Council Chamber, Whitehall, the 25th day of March 1997
By the Lords of Her Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council
Whereas the Council for Professions Supplementary to Medicine has, in accordance with the provisions of section 10(1) of the Professions Supplementary to Medicine Act 1960, recommended to the Privy Council that the Act should extend to the profession of arts therapist:
And whereas a draft of this Order has been laid before Parliament and approved by resolution of each House:
Now, therefore, Their Lordships, in exercise of the powers conferred on Them by section 10(2) of the Act, and all other powers enabling Them in that behalf, after consulting, as boards appearing to Them to be concerned, all the boards established under the Act and existing on the day on which this Order is made, are pleased to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:—
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1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Professions Supplementary to Medicine (Arts Therapists Board) Order of Council 1997 and shall come into force on the day after the date on which it is made.
(2) In this Order, “the Act” means the Professions Supplementary to Medicine Act 1960.
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2. The Act shall have effect as if the profession of arts therapist were mentioned in section 1(2) of the Act, and accordingly the First Schedule to the Act (constitutions of the Council and boards, and supplementary provisions) shall have effect as if there were made the further alterations, additions or omissions specified in the Schedule to this Order.
N. H. Nicholls,
Clerk of the Privy Council
SCHEDULE
Alterations, Additions and Omissions in the First Schedule to the Act
1. Part I of the First Schedule to the Act (Constitutions of the Council and Boards, and Supplementary Provisions) shall have effect as if—
(a) in paragraph 1(1), for “twenty-four” there were substituted “twenty-seven”;
(b) in paragraph 1(1)(b), for “five” there were substitued “seven” and for “two only shall be registered medical practitioners” there were substituted “three only shall be registered medical practitioners”;
(c) in paragraph 1(1)(c), for “eight” there were substituted “nine”;
(d) in paragraph 3(2), for “the professions of orthoptist and of prosthetist and orthotist” there were substituted “the professions of arts therapist, orthoptist, and prosthetist and orthotist”; and
(e) after paragraph 3(4) there were added the following sub-paragraph—
“5 Before making an appointment under this paragraph as respects the profession of arts therapist the said Ministers shall consult the British Association of Art Therapists Limited, the Association of Professional Music Therapists and the British Association for Dramatherapists.”.
2. Part II of the First...
