The Health Care and Associated Professions (Knowledge of English) Order 2015

Privy Council procedures and legislative procedures

3.—(1) Any power vested in the Privy Council to make an order under this Part may be exercised by any two or more members of the Privy Council.

(2) Any power of the Privy Council to make an order under this Part is exercisable by statutory instrument, and for the purposes of section 1 of the Statutory Instruments Act 1946(1) (definition of “Statutory Instrument”), any power of the Privy Council to make an order under this Part is to be taken to be conferred by an Act of Parliament.

(3) An order made (wholly or partly) under article 1 is subject to annulment by resolution of either House of Parliament.

(4) Before making an order under article 1(3) that brings into force measures relating to the regulation of health care professionals, the Privy Council must, in so far as those measures apply in Northern Ireland, obtain the agreement of the Department for Health, Social Services and Public Safety to the making of the order.

(5) Before making an order under this Part that brings into force measures relating to the regulation of dental care professionals or pharmacy technicians, the Privy Council must, in so far as those measures apply in Scotland, consult the Scottish Ministers.

(6) Any act of the Privy Council under this Part is sufficiently signified by an instrument signed by the Clerk of the Privy Council.

(7) Where an order of the Privy Council under this Part is signified by an instrument purporting to be signed by the Clerk of the Privy Council, that is evidence and in Scotland sufficient evidence of—

(a) the fact that the order was duly made; and

(b) the order’s terms.

(1)

1946 c. 36. Section 1(1A) was inserted by the Government of Wales Act 1998 (c. 38), Schedule 12, paragraph 2, and substituted by the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32), Schedule 10, paragraph 2.