Health Professions Order 2001

1.  In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires— U.K.

“the 1960 Act” means the Professions Supplementary to Medicine Act 1960(1);

[F1 “the 2009 Order” means the Health Care and Associated Professions (Miscellaneous Amendments and Practitioner Psychologists) Order 2009;]

[F2 “adaptation period” means—

(a)

in relation to registration under article 9 in reliance on a specified state qualification awarded in Switzerland, a period of supervised practice, subject to an assessment and, where necessary, accompanied by further training or education or both, under the responsibility of a registered professional of the corresponding relevant profession who is registered in the register by virtue of article 9;

(b)

in relation to registration under article 9 in reliance on a specified state qualification awarded otherwise than in Switzerland, a period of supervised practice, subject to an assessment and, where necessary, accompanied by further training, under the responsibility of a registered professional of the corresponding relevant profession who is registered in the register by virtue of article 9;]

[F3 “AEP register” means the aggregate of the entries in the membership list maintained by the Association of Educational Psychologists (which held its inaugural meeting at the London School of Economics on 14th April 1962 and was founded on that date) that relate to full members of the Association;]

F4 ...

[F5 “AODP register” means Part 1 of the register of operating department practitioners maintained by the Association of Operating Department Practitioners;]

“application for restoration” has the meaning given to it in article 33;

[F6 “appropriate cover” is to be construed in accordance with article 11A(3);]

“approved course of education or training” means a course approved under article 15(5)(a);

“approved qualification” has the meaning given to it in articles 13 and 15;

[F7 “aptitude test” means an assessment with the aim of determining whether a specified state professional has the standard of proficiency that the Council considers requisite for admission to the part of the register in respect of which the professional is applying;]

[F3 “BPS register” means the aggregate of the entries in the register maintained by the British Psychological Society (which was incorporated by Royal Charter on 26th February 1965) that relate to holders of practising certificates who are full members of one or more of the divisions of the Society in respect of the following branches of psychology: clinical psychology; counselling psychology; educational psychology; forensic psychology; health psychology; occupational psychology; and sport and exercise psychology;]

“corresponding practitioner member” means the practitioner member appointed under Schedule 2 from the same part of the register as the alternate member concerned;

F4 ...

“the Council” means [F8 the Health and Care Professions Council (formerly known as the Health Professions Council and continued in existence by section 214 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012)];

F9 ...

F10 ...

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[F11 “enactment” has the same meaning as in Schedule 3 to the Health Act 1999;]

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[F13 “health care” includes—

(a)

all forms of health care for individuals, whether relating to physical or mental health, and

(b)

procedures that are similar to forms of medical or surgical care but are not provided in connection with a medical condition;]

F4 ...

[F6 “indemnity arrangement” is to be construed in accordance with article 11A(2);]

“lay person” means, in relation to Screeners, a person who is not and never has been a member of a health or social care profession which is regulated under any enactment;

“licensing body” means a regulatory body which has the function of authorising persons to practise a health or social care profession;

F12 ...

[F14 “the ODP Order” means the Health Professions (Operating Department Practitioners and Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2004;]

“parties” except in respect of article [F15 47], means the Council and the person concerned except in respect of article 37 when it includes the Education and Training Committee;

“Practice Committees” means the Investigating Committee, the Conduct and Competence Committee and the Health Committee;

“practising” means working as a member of one of the relevant professions;

[F3 “practitioner psychologists” means clinical psychologists, counselling psychologists, educational psychologists, forensic psychologists, health psychologists, occupational psychologists and sport and exercise psychologists, and this group of professions is to be treated as a single profession for the purposes of this Order;]

“preliminary meetings” has the meaning given to it in articles 25(5)(b) and 30(2)(b)(ii);

“prescribed” means prescribed in rules made by the Council;

“register” means the register established and maintained under article 5;

“registered professional” means a member of one of the relevant professions who has been admitted to the register established and maintained under article 5;

“registrant” means a member of one of the relevant professions who has been admitted to the register maintained under article 5;

F4 ...

“Registrar” means the person appointed under article 4;

F12 ...

“relevant period” has the meaning given to it in article 13;

“relevant professions” means arts therapists; [F16 chiropodists and podiatrists;] clinical scientists; dietitians; [F17 hearing aid dispensers;] [F18 biomedical scientists;] occupational therapists; [F19 operating department practitioners]; orthoptists; paramedics; physiotherapists; [F20 practitioner psychologists;] prosthetists and orthotists; radiographers; F21 ... and speech and language therapists;

“Screeners” means persons appointed under article 23;

F22 ...

[F7 “specified state professional” means a person who holds a specified state qualification;]

[F7 “specified state qualification” means a qualification in one of the relevant professions awarded in one of the states specified in Schedule 1 to the Recognition of Professional Qualifications and Implementation of International Recognition Agreements (Amendment) Regulations 2023;]

“standards of proficiency” means the standards established by the Council under article 5(2);

“statutory committees” has the meaning given to it in article 3(9);

“United Kingdom country” means England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

F12 ...

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in Sch. 3 para. 1 inserted (1.7.2009) by The Health Care and Associated Professions (Miscellaneous Amendments and Practitioner Psychologists) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/1182), art. 1(9), Sch. 2 para. 16(a); S.I. 2009/1357, art. 2(1)(a)(ii)

F2 Words in Sch. 3 para. 1 substituted (1.1.2025) by The Recognition of Professional Qualifications and Implementation of International Recognition Agreements (Amendment) (Extension to Switzerland etc.) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/1379), regs. 1(4), 21

F3 Words in Sch. 3 para. 1 inserted (1.7.2009) by The Health Care and Associated Professions (Miscellaneous Amendments and Practitioner Psychologists) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/1182), art. 1(9), Sch. 2 para. 16(c); S.I. 2009/1357, art. 2(1)(a)(ii)

F4 Words in Sch. 3 para. 1 omitted (1.7.2009) by virtue of The Health Care and Associated Professions (Miscellaneous Amendments and Practitioner Psychologists) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/1182), art. 1(9), Sch. 2 para. 16(e); S.I. 2009/1357, art. 2(1)(a)(ii)

F5 Words in Sch. 3 inserted (18.10.2004 as notified in the London Gazette dated 1.10.2004) by The Health Professions (Operating Department Practitioners and Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/2033), arts. 1(2), 3(4)(a)

F6 Words in Sch. 3 para. 1 inserted (17.7.2014) by The Health Care and Associated Professions (Indemnity Arrangements) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/1887), art. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 18

F7 Words in Sch. 3 para. 1 inserted (1.12.2023) by The Recognition of Professional Qualifications and Implementation of International Recognition Agreements (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1286), reg. 1, Sch. 3 para. 76

F8 Words in Sch. 3 para. 1 substituted (1.8.2012) by Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c. 7), ss. 214(4), 306(4) (with s. 230(6)); S.I. 2012/1319, art. 2(4)

F9 Words in Sch. 3 omitted (18.8.2004) by virtue of The European Qualifications (Health and Social Care Professions and Accession of New Member States) Regulations 2004 (S.I. 2004/1947), regs. 1(2), 19(2)(a)

F10 Words in Sch. 3 para. 1 omitted (3.12.2007) by virtue of The European Qualifications (Health and Social Care Professions) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/3101), regs. 1(2), 277(a)

F11 Words in Sch. 3 para. 1 inserted (14.5.2009) by The Health Care and Associated Professions (Miscellaneous Amendments and Practitioner Psychologists) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/1182), art. 1(2)(c), Sch. 2 para. 16(b)

F12 Words in Sch. 3 omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The European Qualifications (Health and Social Care Professions) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/593), reg. 1(2), Sch. 8 para. 15 (with reg. 12A, Sch. 8 Pt. 2) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1394, regs. 4, 16(6)-(13)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F13 Words in Sch. 3 inserted (27.3.2012) by Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c. 7), ss. 219(2), 306(1)(a) (with s. 230(6))

F14 Words in Sch. 3 inserted (18.10.2004 as notified in the London Gazette dated 1.10.2004) by The Health Professions (Operating Department Practitioners and Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/2033), arts. 1(2), 3(4)(b)

F15 Word in Sch. 3 substituted (27.7.2004) by The Health Professions (Operating Department Practitioners and Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/2033), arts. 1(2), 10(5)(a)

F16 Words in Sch. 3 substituted (27.7.2004) by The Health Professions (Operating Department Practitioners and Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/2033), arts. 1(2), 10(5)(b)(i)

F17 Words in Sch. 3 para. 1 inserted (1.4.2010) by The Health Professions (Hearing Aid Dispensers) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/233), arts. 1(3), 7(5)(a) (with arts. 4-6)

F18 Words in Sch. 3 substituted (27.7.2004) by The Health Professions (Operating Department Practitioners and Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/2033), arts. 1(2), 10(5)(b)(ii)

F19 Words in Sch. 3 inserted (18.10.2004 as notified in the London Gazette dated 1.10.2004) by The Health Professions (Operating Department Practitioners and Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/2033), arts. 1(2), 3(4)(c)

F20 Words in Sch. 3 para. 1 inserted (1.7.2009) by The Health Care and Associated Professions (Miscellaneous Amendments and Practitioner Psychologists) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/1182), art. 1(9), Sch. 2 para. 16(d); S.I. 2009/1357, art. 2(1)(a)(ii)

F21 Words in Sch. 3 para. 1 omitted (2.12.2019) by virtue of Children and Social Work Act 2017 (c. 16), s. 70(2), Sch. 5 para. 27(3) (with savings (2.12.2019) in S.I. 2019/1140, regs. 1, 23(1)-(5); S.I. 2019/1436, reg. 2(b)); S.I. 2019/1436, reg. 2(s)

F22 Words in Sch. 3 para. 1 omitted (2.12.2019) by virtue of Children and Social Work Act 2017 (c. 16), s. 70(2), Sch. 5 para. 27(4) (with savings (2.12.2019) in S.I. 2019/1140, regs. 1, 23(1)-(5); S.I. 2019/1436, reg. 2(b)); S.I. 2019/1436, reg. 2(s)

Commencement Information

I1 Sch. 3 para. 1 not in force at made date, see art. 1(2)

I2 Sch. 3 para. 1 in force at 22.3.2002 for specified purposes as notified in the London Gazette dated 15.3.2002, see art. 1(3)

I3 Sch. 3 para. 1 in force at 1.4.2002 for specified purposes as notified in the London Gazette dated 25.3.2002, see art. 1(3)

I4 Sch. 3 para. 1 in force at 22.1.2003 for specified purposes as notified in the London Gazette dated 10.1.2003, see art. 1(3)

I5 Sch. 3 para. 1 in force at 14.3.2003 for specified purposes as notified in the London Gazette dated 7.3.2003, see art. 1(3)

I6 Sch. 3 para. 1 in force at 9.7.2003 for specified purposes as notified in the London Gazette dated 27.6.2003, see art. 1(3) (with transitional provisions in S.I. 2003/1700)

I7 Sch. 3 para. 1 in force at 18.10.2004 for specified purposes as notified in the London Gazette dated 4.10.2004, see art. 1(3)

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1960 (8 and Eliz. 2 c. 66).