The Registered Health Care Profession (Designation) Order 2003

Statutory Instruments

2003 No. 2461

POLICE, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Registered Health Care Profession (Designation) Order 2003

Made

25th September 2003

Laid before Parliament

3rd October 2003

Coming into force

1st November 2003

In exercise of the powers conferred upon him by the definition of “registered health care professional” in section 65(1) of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984(1), the Secretary of State hereby makes the following Order:

1.  This Order may be cited as the Registered Health Care Profession (Designation) Order 2003 and shall come into force on 1st November 2003.

2.  The profession of paramedics, being a profession mentioned in section 60(2) of the Health Act 1999(2), by virtue of being regulated by the Health Professions Order 2001(3) is hereby designated as a health care profession(4) for the purposes of the definition of “registered health care professional” in section 65(1) of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984.

Hazel Blears

Minister of State

Home Office

25th September 2003

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order enables, from 1st November 2003, paramedics registered under Part 8 of the register maintained under the Health Professions Order 2001 by the Health Professions Council to take samples under section 62 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984.

(1)

1984 c. 60; the definition of “registered health care professional” was inserted in section 65(1) by section 54(2) of the Police Reform Act 2002 (c. 30).

(2)

1999 c. 8; section 60(2) is amended by the Health Professions Order 2001 (S.I. 2002/254).

(3)

S.I. 2002/254.

(4)

Health care profession is defined in section 65(1A) of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 as any profession mentioned in section 60(2) of the Health Act 1999 (c. 8) other than the profession of practising medicine and the profession of nursing.