The National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002 (Supplementary, Consequential etc. Provisions) Regulations 2002

Nursing and Midwifery Order 2001

100.—(1) The Nursing and Midwifery Order 2001(1) is amended as follows.

(2) In Schedule 2 (transitional provisions), in paragraph 18(1), for “that Act to the UKCC or to a National Board were to the Council” there is substituted—

“(a) that Act—

(i) to the UKCC or to a National Board were to the Council, and

(ii) to local supervising authorities were, in relation to England, to a Strategic Health Authority established under section 8 of the National Health Service Act 1977 and, in relation to Wales, to a Health Authority established under section 8 of that Act; and

(b) that subordinate legislation to health authority were, in relation to England, to a Strategic Health Authority established under section 8 of the National Health Service Act 1977 and, in relation to Wales, to a Health Authority established under section 8 of that Act”.

(3) In Schedule 4 (interpretation), in the definition of “local supervising authority”, for paragraph (a) there is substituted—

“(a) in England, Strategic Health Authorities established under section 8 of the National Health Service Act 1977;

(aa) in Wales, Health Authorities established under section 8 of that Act;”.

(1)

S.I. 2002/253.