The Professions Supplementary to Medicine (Prosthetists and Orthotists Board) Order of Council 1997

Alterations, additions and omissions in the First Schedule to the Act

1.  Part I of the First Schedule to the Act (Constitutions of the Council and Boards, and Supplementary Provisions) shall have effect as if—

(a)in paragraph 1(1), for the word “twenty-one” there were substituted the word “twenty-four”;

(b)in paragraph 1(1)(b), for the word “three” there were substituted the word “five”, and for the words “one only shall be a registered medical practitioner” there were substituted the words “two only shall be registered medical practitioners”;

(c)in paragraph 1(1)(c), for the word “seven” there were substituted the word “eight”;

(d)in paragraph 3(2), for the words “the profession of orthoptists” there were substituted the words “the professions of orthoptist and of prosthetist and orthotist”; and

(e)after paragraph 3(3) there were added the following sub-paragraph—

“(4) Before making an appointment under this paragraph as respects the profession of prosthetist and orthotist the said Ministers shall consult the British Association of Prosthetists and Orthotists.”