1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Health Care and Associated Professions (Knowledge of English) Order 2015.
(2) This Part comes into force on the day after the day on which this Order is made.
(3) Except as provided for in paragraph (2), this Order comes into force on such days as the Privy Council may by order appoint.
(4) Different days may be appointed under paragraph (3) for different purposes.
(5) Where this Order amends other legislation, those amendments have the same extent as the legislation being amended.
2.—(1) 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.
(2) The power to make an order under paragraph (1) 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 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.
3.—(1) Any power vested in the Privy Council to make an order under this Part may be exercised by any two or more members of the Privy Council.
(2) Any power of the Privy Council to make an order under this Part is exercisable by statutory instrument, and for the purposes of section 1 of the Statutory Instruments Act 1946(1) (definition of “Statutory Instrument”), any power of the Privy Council to make an order under this Part is to be taken to be conferred by an Act of Parliament.
(3) An order made (wholly or partly) under article 1 is subject to annulment by resolution of either House of Parliament.
(4) Before making an order under article 1(3) that brings into force measures relating to the regulation of health care professionals, the Privy Council must, in so far as those measures apply in Northern Ireland, obtain the agreement of the Department for Health, Social Services and Public Safety to the making of the order.
(5) Before making an order under this Part that brings into force measures relating to the regulation of dental care professionals or pharmacy technicians, the Privy Council must, in so far as those measures apply in Scotland, consult the Scottish Ministers.
(6) Any act of the Privy Council under this Part is sufficiently signified by an instrument signed by the Clerk of the Privy Council.
(7) Where an order of the Privy Council under this Part is signified by an instrument purporting to be signed by the Clerk of the Privy Council, that is evidence and in Scotland sufficient evidence of—
(a)the fact that the order was duly made; and
(b)the order’s terms.
1946 c. 36. Section 1(1A) was inserted by the Government of Wales Act 1998 (c. 38), Schedule 12, paragraph 2, and substituted by the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32), Schedule 10, paragraph 2.