The Nursing and Midwifery Order 2001

1. Introductory Text

2. PART I General

   1. Article 1. Citation and commencement

   2. Article 2. Interpretation

3. PART II The Council and its Committees

   1. Article 3. The Nursing and Midwifery Council and its Committees

4. PART III Registration

   1. Article 4. Registrar

   2. Article 5. Establishment and maintenance of register

   3. Article 6. Register

   4. Article 7. The register: supplemental provisions

   5. Article 8. Access to register

   6. Article 9. Registration

   7. Article 10. Renewal of registration and readmission

   8. Article 11. Deemed registration of visiting EEA nurses and midwives

   9. Article 12. Lapse of registration

   10. Article 13. Approved qualifications

   11. Article 14. EEA qualifications

5. PART IV Education and Training

   1. Article 15. Education and training

   2. Article 16. Visitors

   3. Article 17. Information to be given by institutions

   4. Article 18. Refusal or withdrawal of approval of courses, qualifications and institutions

   5. Article 19. Post-registration training

   6. Article 20. Wales

6. PART V Fitness to Practise

   1. Article 21. Council’s functions in respect of fitness to practise, ethics and other matters

   2. Article 22. Allegations

   3. Article 23. Screeners

   4. Article 24. Screeners: supplementary provisions

   5. Article 25. Council’s power to require disclosure of information

   6. Article 26. The Investigating Committee

   7. Article 27. The Conduct and Competence Committee

   8. Article 28. The Health Committee

   9. Article 29. Orders of the Health Committee and the Conduct and Competence Committee

   10. Article 30. Review of orders by the Health Committee and the Conduct and Competence Committee

   11. Article 31. Interim orders by a Practice Committee

   12. Article 32. Investigation of allegations: procedural rules

   13. Article 33. Restoration to the register of persons who have been struck off

   14. Article 34. Legal assessors

   15. Article 35. Medical assessors

   16. Article 36. Registrant assessors

7. PART VI Appeals

   1. Article 37. Appeals against Registrar’s decisions

   2. Article 38. Appeals

8. PART VII EEA provisions

   1. Article 39. Visiting EEA nurses and midwives

   2. Article 40. Competent authority for EEA purposes

9. PART VIII Midwifery

   1. Article 41. The Midwifery Committee

   2. Article 42. Rules as to midwifery practice

   3. Article 43. Local supervision of midwives

10. PART IX Offences

    1. Article 44. Offences

    2. Article 45. Attendance by unqualified persons at childbirth

11. PART X Miscellaneous

    1. Article 46. Further provisions

    2. Article 47. Rules and orders

    3. Article 48. Exercise of powers by the Privy Council

    4. Article 49. Default powers of the Privy Council

    5. Article 50. Annual Reports

    6. Article 51. Finances of the Council

    7. Article 52. Accounts of the Council

    8. Article 53. Inquiry by the Privy Council

    9. Article 54. Supplementary and transitional provisions and extent

12. Signature

13. SCHEDULES

    1. Schedule 1

       Nursing and Midwifery Council and Committees:

       1. Part I Nursing and Midwifery Council

       2. Part II The Statutory Committees

    2. Schedule 2

       Transitional provisions

    3. Schedule 3

       The competent authority for certain EEA purposes

    4. Schedule 4

       Interpretation

    5. Schedule 5

       Consequential amendments to primary legislation

14. Explanatory Note