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Emergency registration of health professionals
2.Emergency registration of nurses and other health and care professionals
3.Emergency arrangements concerning medical practitioners: Wales
4.Emergency arrangements concerning medical practitioners: Scotland
5.Emergency registration of and extension of prescribing powers for pharmaceutical chemists: Northern Ireland
40.Statutory sick pay: power to disapply waiting period limitation
41.Statutory sick pay: modification of regulation making powers
42.Statutory sick pay: funding of employers' liabilities: Northern Ireland
43.Statutory sick pay: power to disapply waiting period limitation: Northern Ireland
44.Statutory sick pay: modification of regulation making powers: Northern Ireland
Courts and tribunals: use of video and audio technology
53.Expansion of availability of live links in criminal proceedings
54.Expansion of availability of live links in other criminal hearings
55.Public participation in proceedings conducted by video or audio
56.Live links in magistrates' court appeals against requirements or restrictions imposed on a potentially infectious person
Postponement of elections, referendums, recall petitions and canvass
91.Power to amend Act in consequence of amendments to subordinate legislation
93.Procedure for certain regulations made by a Minister of the Crown
94.Procedure for certain regulations made by the Welsh Ministers
95.Procedure for certain regulations made by the Scottish Ministers
96.Procedure for certain orders made by a Northern Ireland department
97.Reports by Secretary of State on status of non-devolved provisions of this Act
99.Parliamentary consideration of status of non-devolved provisions of this Act
SCHEDULES
Emergency registration of nurses and other health and care professionals
Emergency arrangements concerning medical practitioners: Wales
Emergency arrangements concerning medical practitioners: Scotland
Mental health: England and Wales
PART 2 Modifications of the Mental Health Act 1983 and related provision
Applications for compulsory admission to hospital for assessment or treatment
Applications for compulsory admission of patients already in hospital
Court orders for the detention of accused or convicted persons in hospital
Administration of medicine to persons liable to detention in hospital
Constitution and proceedings of the Mental Health Review Tribunal for Wales
PART 2 Modifications of the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003
PART 3 Modifications of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995
Mental health: Northern Ireland
PART 2 Modifications of the Mental Health (Northern Ireland) Order 1986
PART 4 Review of operation of certain provisions of this Schedule
Mental capacity: Northern Ireland
PART 2 Modifications of the Mental Capacity Act (Northern Ireland) 2016
Time limit for panel's decisions regarding authorisations of certain serious interventions
Interim authorisations by panels of certain serious interventions
Report authorising short-term detention in hospital for examination etc
Extension reports in relation to public protection orders without restrictions
Required medical evidence for directions for the transfer of prisoners etc to hospital
Admission of person subject to hospital transfer direction to hospital
PART 4 Review of operation of certain provisions of this Schedule
Review of medical certificates of cause of death and cremations: Scotland
PART 1 Review of medical certificates of cause of death
Power to suspend review of certain medical certificates of cause of death
Effect of direction on existing reviews referred under section 24A of the 1965 Act
Effect of direction on existing reviews made by application under section 4(1) of the 2011 Act
Automatic referral of medical certificates of the cause of death to procurator fiscal
Information relating to food supply chains: financial penalties
Temporary closure of educational institutions and childcare premises
Temporary continuity directions etc: education, training and childcare
Powers to act for the protection of public health: Northern Ireland
Health protection regulations: Scotland
Power to suspend port operations
Powers relating to potentially infectious persons
PART 2 Powers relating to potentially infectious persons in England
Powers to direct or remove persons to a place suitable for screening and assessment
Powers exercisable at a screening and assessment place: public health officers
Powers exercisable at a screening and assessment place: constables and immigration officers
PART 3 Powers relating to potentially infectious persons in Scotland
Powers to direct or remove persons to a place suitable for screening and assessment
Powers exercisable at a screening and assessment place: public health officers
Powers exercisable at a screening and assessment place: constables and immigration officers
PART 4 Powers relating to potentially infectious persons in Wales
Powers to direct or remove persons to a place suitable for screening and assessment
Powers exercisable at a screening and assessment place: public health officers
Powers exercisable at a screening and assessment place: constables and immigration officers
PART 5 Powers relating to potentially infectious persons in Northern Ireland
Powers to direct or remove persons to a place suitable for screening and assessment
Powers exercisable at a screening and assessment place: public health officers
Powers exercisable at a screening and assessment place: constables and immigration officers
Powers to issue directions relating to events, gatherings and premises
PART 2 Powers relating to events, gatherings and premises in England
PART 3 Powers relating to events, gatherings and premises in Scotland
PART 4 Powers relating to events, gatherings and premises in Wales
PART 5 Powers relating to events, gatherings and premises in Northern Ireland
Public participation in proceedings conducted by video or audio
Residential tenancies in England and Wales: protection from eviction
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