Statutory Instruments

1999 No. 1855

PROFESSIONS SUPPLEMENTARY TO MEDICINE

The Professions Supplementary to Medicine (Speech and Language Therapists Board) Order of Council 1999

Made

18th June 1999

Coming into force

19th June 1999

At the Council Chamber, Whitehall, the 18th day of June 1999

by the Lords of Her Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council

Whereas the Council for Professions Supplementary to Medicine has, in accordance with the provisions of section 10(1) of the Professions Supplementary to Medicine Act 1960(1), recommended to the Privy Council that the Act should extend to the profession of speech and language therapists:

And whereas a draft of this Order has been laid before Parliament and approved by resolution of each House:

Now, therefore, Their Lordships, in exercise of the powers conferred on Them by section 10(2) of the Act, and all other powers enabling Them in that behalf, after consulting, as boards appearing to Them to be concerned, all the boards established under the Act and existing on the day before that on which this Order was made, are pleased to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows–

(1)

1960 c. 66. The Act was extended to the profession of orthoptists by S.I. 1966/990, to the profession of prosthetists and orthotists by S.I. 1997/504, and to the profession of arts therapists by S.I. 1997/1121; and ceased to extend to the profession of remedial gymnasts by virtue of S.I. 1986/630. The First Schedule to the Act has effect as if amended by all four instruments.