This Order may be cited as the Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors (Registration) Modification Rules Approval Order 1991 and shall come into force on 1st February 1991.

SCHEDULETHE NURSES, MIDWIVES AND HEALTH VISITORS (REGISTRATION) MODIFICATION RILES 1991THE NURSES, MIDWIVES AND HEALTH VISITORS ACT 1979

The United Kingdom Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by sections 10 (3), 11(1) and 22 of the Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors Act 1979, having consulted the National Boards in accordance with section 22(3) of that Act, hereby makes the following Rules:

Citation and interpretation

1.-(1) These Rules may be cited as the Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors (Registration) Modification Rules 1991.

(2) In these Rules, "the principal Rules" means the Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors Rules 1983(2).

Modification of principal Rules in respect of persons seeking effective registration for particular purposes

2.-(1) The principal Rules shall have effect subject to the modification specified in the following paragraph.

(2) In relation to any person-

(a)who has previously been registered in any Part or Parts of the register; and

(b)Whose registration has ceased to be effective by virtue of paragraph (4) of Rule 9; and

(c)who applies pursuant to paragraph (5) of that Rule to have her registration in that Part or those Parts of the register again made effective, and includes with her application a declaration to the effect that she seeks effective registration only for the purpose of enabling her to practise as a nurse, midwife or health visitor in response to an increased need for such practitioners which has arisen by reason of the hostilities in which Her Majesty is engaged in consequence of the unlawful occupation of Kuwait by Iraq; and

(d)whose registration in that Part or those Parts of the register again becomes effective as a result of that application,

paragraph (2) of Rule 9 shall have effect as if for the words in that paragraph from "shall mean" to "the Act" there were substituted the words "shall mean the period of six months beginning with the date on which her registration again becomes effective, as mentioned in Rule 2 (2)(d) of the Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors (Registration) Modification Rules 1991, and any subsequent period of six months which begins immediately after the end of the first mentioned period of six months or of any subsequent period"

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

The Rules approved by this Order, and made by the United Kingdom Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting ("the Council"), modify in certain cases the Rules approved by the Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors Rules Approval Order 1983 so as to reduce from 3 years to six months the period for which a person may remain registered as a nurse, midwife or health visitor ("practitioner") before she becomes liable to pay a fee for renewing her registration. The reduced registration period applies only in the case of a practitioner whose previously ineffective registration is again made effective following her application to the Council for the purpose, provided that the application is accompanied by a declaration to the effect that she proposes to practise only in response to a need for additional practitioners which arises out of the present hostilities in the Gulf region.