Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors Act 1992

7 Suspension

(1) Section 12 of the 1979 Act (proceedings about the register) shall be amended as mentioned in subsections (2) to (4) below.

(2) In subsection (1) (duty of Central Council to determine by rules when and how certain steps in relation to a person’s registration may be taken) for the word “and” immediately following paragraph (b) there shall be substituted—

“(ba) a person’s registration in the register or a part of it may be directed to be suspended, that is to say, not to have effect during such period as may be specified in the direction;

(bb) the suspension of a person’s registration in the register or a part of it may be terminated; and”.

(3) In subsection (2) (proceedings to be heard and determined by committees of the Council) after “register” there shall be inserted “, for the suspension, or termination of the suspension, of a person’s registration in the register”.

(4) At the end there shall be inserted—

“(6) Where a person’s registration in the register or a part of it is suspended under subsection (1)(ba), he shall be treated as not being registered in the register or part notwithstanding that his name still appears in it.”

(5) In section 13(1) of that Act (decisions which a person may appeal against) after “register” there shall be inserted “, or to direct that his registration in the register be suspended,”.