SCHEDULE 1 Amendments to the Nursing and Midwifery Order 2001

14 Amendment of article 16
In article 16 (visitors) for paragraphs (5) and (6) substitute—

“5 A person is not to be prevented from being a visitor merely because he is a member of the Council, or any of its committees, but he may not be a visitor if he is employed by the Council.
6 Visitors are to be selected with due regard to the profession with which the education and training they are to report on is concerned and subject to paragraph (6A), at least one of the visitors must be registered in that part of the register which relates to that profession.
6A At least one of the visitors who are to report on the education and training of nursing associates shall be registered in the nurses’ or the nursing associates’ parts of the register.”

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