The Health Care and Associated Professions (Miscellaneous Amendments and Practitioner Psychologists) Order 2009

Transitional, transitory or saving provisions orders

9.—(1) In connection with the commencement of any provision of this Order, the Privy Council may by order make such transitional, transitory or saving provisions as it considers appropriate.

(2) The power to make an order under paragraph (1) may be exercised—

(a) so as to make different provision—

(i) with respect to different cases or different classes of cases, or

(ii) in respect of the same case or class of case for different purposes;

(b) in relation to all cases to which the power extends or in relation to all those cases subject to specified exceptions; or

(c) so as to make any supplementary, incidental or consequential provisions which the Privy Council considers necessary or expedient.

(3) Before making an order under paragraph (1)—

(a) that includes measures relating to the regulation of—

(i) operating department practitioners,

(ii) practitioner psychologists,

(iii) pharmacy technicians, or

(iv) a profession complementary to dentistry, or a class of members of a profession complementary to dentistry, which immediately before the revocation of the Dental Auxiliaries Regulations 1986(1) did not constitute a class of dental auxiliaries regulated by those Regulations; or

(b) that relates to the commencement of the new section 30A of the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007(2),

the Privy Council must consult the Scottish Ministers.

(1)

S.I. 1986/887.

(2)

2007 asp 14.