The Professions Supplementary to Medicine (Registration Rules) (Amendment) Order of Council 2001

Statutory Instruments

2001 No. 896

PROFESSIONS SUPPLEMENTARY TO MEDICINE

The Professions Supplementary to Medicine (Registration Rules) (Amendment) Order of Council 2001

Made

8th March 2001

At the Council Chamber, Whitehall, the 8th day of March 2001

By the Lords of Her Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council

WHEREAS in pursuance of section 2(3) of the Professions Supplementary to Medicine Act 1960(1) the Council for Professions Supplementary to Medicine has made rules entitled “The Registration (Amendment) Rules 2000”:

AND WHEREAS such rules shall not come into force until confirmed by Order of the Privy Council:

NOW, THEREFORE, Their Lordships, having taken these rules into consideration, are hereby pleased to confirm them as set out in the Schedule to this Order.

This Order may be cited as the Professions Supplementary to Medicine (Registration Rules) (Amendment) Order of Council 2001.

A.K. Galloway

Clerk of the Privy Council

SCHEDULE PROFESSIONS SUPPLEMENTARY TO MEDICINETHE REGISTRATION (AMENDMENT) RULES 2000

The Council for Professions Supplementary to Medicine, in exercise of its powers under section 2 of the Professions Supplementary to Medicine Act 1960(2), hereby makes the following rules:—

1.  These rules may be cited as the Registration (Amendment) Rules 2000.

2.  The Registration Rules 1962 (scheduled to the Professions Supplementary to Medicine (Registration Rules) Order of Council 1962(3), and as subsequently amended) shall be further amended as follows:—

(i) in rule 16(i), after “31st July 1967” there shall be inserted “the Paramedics Board before the 31st August 2000”; and after “30th September 1998” there shall be inserted “the Clinical Scientists Board before the 30th September 2000, the Speech & Language Therapists Board before the 30th September 2000”.

(ii) in the Schedule, after the entry relating to “Orthoptists”, the following entries shall be inserted in the columns indicated:—

“1.	2.	3.
1st July	Paramedics	31st August”and after the entry relating to “Prosthetists-Orthotists”, the following entries shall be inserted in the columns indicated:—

“1.	2.	3.
1st August	Clinical Scientists	30th September
1st August	Speech & Language Therapists	30th September”

The Common Seal of the Council for Professions Supplementary to Medicine was hereunto affixed this twelfth day of July 2000 in the presence of:

L.S.

B. Edwards

Member of Council

M. D. Hall

Registrar

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

The Professions Supplementary to Medicine Act 1960 was extended to the professions of Clinical Scientist, Paramedic and Speech & Language Therapist by Orders made under section 10 of that Act in June 1999. As a result it is necessary to amend the Registration Rules 1962 made under that Act so as to include references to registration with the Clinical Scientists Board, Paramedics Board and Speech & Language Therapists Board established under the Act.

(1)

1960 c. 66.

(2)

1960 c. 66.

(3)

S.I. 1962/1765: relevant amending rules were approved by S.I. 1967/266, 1986/660, 1996/2945, 1997/2562 and 1999/1028.