1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Health Care and Associated Professions (Indemnity Arrangements) Order 2014.
(2) This Order comes into force on the day after the day on which it is made.
(3) Where this Order amends other legislation and makes transitional provisions in relation to those amendments, those amendments and transitional provisions have the same extent as the legislation being amended.
2.—(1) Schedule 1 (amendments to legislation regulating health care and associated professions) has effect.
(2) Schedule 2 (other amendments of subordinate legislation) has effect.
3.—(1) The transitional and saving provisions set out in Schedule 3 have effect.
(2) 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.
(3) The power to make an order under paragraph (2) 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.
(4) The power of the Privy Council to make an order under paragraph (2) may be exercised by any two or more members of the Privy Council.
(5) The making of an order under paragraph (2) shall be sufficiently signified by an instrument signed by the Clerk of the Privy Council.
(6) The power to make an order under paragraph (2) shall be exercisable by statutory instrument.
(7) For the purposes of section 1 of the Statutory Instruments Act 1946 (definition of “statutory instrument”), the power in paragraph (2) is to be taken to be conferred by an Act of Parliament.
(8) Where an order of the Privy Council under this Order is signified by an instrument purporting to be signed by the Clerk of the Privy Council, that shall be evidence, and in Scotland sufficient evidence, of—
(a)the fact that the order was duly made; and
(b)the order’s terms.
Richard Tilbrook
Clerk of the Privy Council