S T A T U T O R Y I N S T R U M E N T S
1999No. 1853
PROFESSIONS SUPPLEMENTARY TO MEDICINE
The Professions Supplementary to Medicine (Paramedics Board) Order of Council 1999
18thJune1999
At the Council Chamber, Whitehall, the 18th day of June 1999
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( 1), recommended to the Privy Council that the Act should extend to the profession of paramedics:
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 before that on which this Order was made, are pleased to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows-
Citation, commencement and interpretation
1.(1) This Order may be cited as the Professions Supplementary to Medicine (Paramedics Board) Order of Council 1999 and shall come into force immediately after the coming into force of the Professions Supplementary to Medicine (Clinical Scientists Board) Order of Council.
(2) In this Order, "the Act" means the Professions Supplementary to Medicine Act 1960.
Extension of application of the Act to the profession of paramedics
2. The Act shall have effect as if the profession of paramedics 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.
A.K. Galloway
Clerk of the Privy Council
SCHEDULE
Article 2
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 "thirty-three" there were substituted "thirty-six";(b) in paragraph 1(1)(b), for "eleven" there were substituted "thirteen" and for "five only shall be registered medical practitioners" there were substituted "six only shall be registered medical practitioners";(c) in paragraph 1(1)(c), for "eleven"...
