Citation, commencement , interpretation and application

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service (Professions Supplementary to Medicine) Amendment (Wales) Regulations 2001, and shall come into force on 1 April 2001

(2) In these Regulations, “the principal Regulations” means the National Health Service (Professions Supplementary to Medicine) Regulations 1974(3).

(3) These Regulations apply to Wales.

Amendment of regulation 3 of the principal Regulations

2.—(1) Regulation 3 of the principal Regulations (employment of officers) shall be amended as follows:

(2) In paragraph (1), for “radiographer or remedial gymnast” there shall be substituted “or radiographer”(4).

(3) After paragraph (1), there shall be inserted the following paragraph —

“(1A) No person shall be employed as an officer of an authority to which this regulation applies, in the capacity of prosthetist and orthotist or arts therapist unless —

(a)that person is registered in respect of that profession; or

(b)that person has never been registered as a prosthetist and orthotist or arts therapist, but who, immediately before 1 April 2001, was employed in that capacity by an authority, in England or Wales, to which this regulation applies.”.

(4) For paragraph (2) there shall be substituted —

“(2) The authorities to which this regulation applies are —

(a)Health Authorities;

(b)Special Health Authorities.”.

Explanatory Note

(This note does not form part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the National Health Service (Professions Supplementary to Medicine) Regulations 1974 (the “principal Regulations”).

The Professions Supplementary to Medicine Act 1960 (“the Act”) was extended in 1997 to include prosthetists and orthotists and arts therapists among the professions regulated under that Act.

These Regulations add those professions to those whose employment by Health Authorities and Special Health Authorities is prohibited for the purposes of providing services under the National Health Service, except where their names are included in the register maintained pursuant to section 2(1) of the Act by the Boards holding registers for those professions, or they were employed in that capacity immediately before the coming into force of these Regulations.

In addition, regulation 2(2) removes the reference to remedial gymnasts from the principal Regulations because the Act no longer extends to this profession separately. It has became part of the profession of physiotherapists.

The list of authorities to which the principal Regulations apply is updated by regulation 2(4).