Nurses (Scotland) Act 1951

19 Regional nurse-training committees

(1) The Secretary of State shall, after consulting the Council, by order constitute, in accordance with the provisions contained in the Fourth Schedule to this Act, a regional nurse-training committee for each area as hereinafter defined and any such committee shall exercise, as respects the area for which it has been so constituted, the functions in this Act assigned to it.

(2) It shall be the duty of a regional nurse-training committee—

(a) generally to supervise the training of nurses in accordance with the training rules, and in particular to have regard, as respects persons engaged in such training, to the methods employed by those persons of training nurses;

(b) to report to the Council from time to time on the matters referred to in the last foregoing paragraph; and

(c) to advise and assist the Council on matters referred to it by the Council which may include matters relating to the approval of institutions for the purposes of the training rules.

(3) The supplementary provisions contained in the Fourth Schedule to this Act shall have effect with respect to regional nurse-training committees.

(4) In this section the expression " area " means a hospital area:

Provided that the Secretary of State may by order direct that an area consisting of two or more hospital areas shall be an area for the purposes of this section.