The Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors (Registration) Modification Rules Approved Order 1991

Made: 30th January 1991

Coming into force: 1st February 1991

In exercise of powers conferred by section 22(4) of the Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors Act 1979[^f00001], I hereby approve the Rules made by the United Kingdom Centrl Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting and set out in the Schedule hereto.

This Order may be cited as the Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors (Registration) Modification Rules Approval Order 1991 and shall come into force on 1st February 1991.

SCHEDULE — THE NURSES, MIDWIVES AND HEALTH VISITORS (REGISTRATION) MODIFICATION RILES 1991

Signed

William Waldegrave — One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State — 30th January 1991

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

The Rules approved by this Order, and made by the United Kingdom Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting (“the Council”), modify in certain cases the Rules approved by the Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors Rules Approval Order 1983 so as to reduce from 3 years to six months the period for which a person may remain registered as a nurse, midwife or health visitor (“practitioner”) before she becomes liable to pay a fee for renewing her registration. The reduced registration period applies only in the case of a practitioner whose previously ineffective registration is again made effective following her application to the Council for the purpose, provided that the application is accompanied by a declaration to the effect that she proposes to practise only in response to a need for additional practitioners which arises out of the present hostilities in the Gulf region.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1979 c. 36.

[^f00002]: Approved by S.I. 1983/873; Rule 9 was substituted by Rules approved by S.I. 1986/1345, and further substituted by Rules approved by S.I. 1986/2294