NURSES AND MIDWIVES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1970

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NURSES AND MIDWIVES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1970 - SECT 54

Interpretation, etc.

54.(1) In this Act

"the Authority" means the Northern Ireland Hospitals Authority;

"the Council" has the meaning assigned to it by section 1(1);

"the Disciplinary Committee" means the committee constituted by the Council
under section 5;

"doctor" means a fully registered person within the meaning of the Medical
Acts 1956 to 1969;

["Health and Social Services Board" means a Health and Social Services Board
established under Article 16 of the Health and Personal Social Services
(Northern Ireland) Order 1972;]

Definition rep. by 1972 NI14 art.109(3) sch.18

"the Joint Council" means the Joint Nursing and Midwives Council for Northern
Ireland reconstituted by section 1 of the Nurses and Midwives Act (Northern
Ireland) 1959;

"the Liaison Committee" means the committee constituted by the Council under
section 6;

"the list" means the list established in pursuance of section 18 of the Nurses
Act (Northern Ireland) 1946, continued in pursuance of section 5 of the Nurses
and Midwives Act (Northern Ireland) 1959 and maintained in pursuance of
section 17;

Definition rep. by 1972 NI14 art.109(3) sch.18

"midwife" means a woman who is for the time being certified under Part III as
a midwife;

"the Minister" means the Minister of Health and Social Services;

"the Ministry" means the Ministry of Health and Social Services;

"the register" means the register of nurses established in pursuance of the
Nurses Registration (Ireland) Act 1919, continued in pursuance of section 2 of
the Nurses and Midwives Act (Northern Ireland) 1959 and maintained in
pursuance of section 17;

"the roll of nurses" means the roll established in pursuance of Part I of the
Nurses Act (Northern Ireland) 1946, continued in pursuance of section 2 of the
Nurses and Midwives Act (Northern Ireland) 1959 under the name of the Roll of
Assistant Nurses and renamed the roll of nurses by section 1 of the Nurses and
Midwives (Amendment) Act (Northern Ireland) 1961 and maintained in pursuance
of section 17;

"the roll of midwives" means the roll of midwives established in pursuance of
the Midwives (Ireland) Act 1918, continued in pursuance of section 22(1) of
the Nurses and Midwives Act (Northern Ireland) 1959 and maintained in
pursuance of section 17;

"school committee" means a committee constituted under section 10(5);

"specified" in relation to rules means specified in the rules;

"training" means training and instruction in nursing or midwifery, and
includes further training;

"training rules" means rules made under sections 7(2)(c) and 20(2)(a);

"training school" means an institution in which persons accepted for training
as nurses or midwives are given such training;

Definition rep. by 1972 NI14 art.109(3) sch.18

(2) References in this Act to the register and the list shall include
references respectively to a part of the register and a part of the list.

(3) A person who was accepted by the Authority for training as a nurse or
midwife before the commencement of this Act and whose period of training had
not expired at that commencement shall be deemed to have been accepted by
the Council for training.[

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