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NURSES AND MIDWIVES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1970 - SECT 1

1.(1) There shall be established a body to be known as the Northern Ireland
Council for Nurses and Midwives (in this Act referred to as "the Council").

(2) The Council shall be a body corporate with perpetual succession to which
section 19 of the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 shall apply.

(3) The Council shall have such functions as are conferred on it by virtue of
this Act.

(4) The constitution of the Council shall be as provided in that behalf in
Part I of Schedule 1, and the supplementary provisions contained in Part II of
that Schedule shall have effect with respect to the Council.

(5) The Ministry may by order made subject to affirmative resolution amend any
provision of Schedule 1, so however that any amendment made under this
subsection shall have regard to the principles that

(a)the Council shall be representative of the interests affected; and

(b)the number of elected members shall exceed the number of appointed members.

S.2 rep. by SLR 1976; SLR 1980

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