The National Health Service (Professions Supplementary to Medicine) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2000

Amendment of regulation 3 of the principal Regulations

2.—(1) Regulation 3 of the principal Regulations (employment of officers) is amended as follows.

(2) After the words “in the capacity of” in the first place where they occur there is inserted “arts therapist,”.

(3) After the word “orthoptist,” in the first place where it occurs there is inserted “orthotist,”.

(4) After the word “physiotherapist,” in the first place where it occurs there is inserted “prosthetist”.

(5) For the words “radiographer or remedial gymnast” in both places where they occur there is substituted “or radiographer”(1).

(6) At the end of paragraph (c) the word “or” is omitted.

(7) After paragraph (b) there is added–

“or,

(c) he is a person who has never been registered as a prosthetist, orthotist or arts therapist, but who immediately before 10th July 2000 was employed by a Health Board in the capacity of prosthetist, orthotist or arts therapist.”.

(1)

S.I. 1986/630 removed remedial gymnasts from the list of professions to which the Professions Supplementary to Medicine Act 1960 (c. 66) applies and provided that they be registered with the Physiotherapists Board.