The Health Professions (Operating Department Practitioners and Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2004

Citation, commencement, extent and interpretation

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Health Professions (Operating Department Practitioners and Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2004.

(2) This article and Part 2 shall come into force forthwith upon the making of this Order, and the other provisions of this Order shall come into force on such days as the Secretary of State may specify.

(3) Different days may be specified under paragraph (2) for different purposes, and any day so specified shall be caused to be notified in the London, Edinburgh and Belfast Gazettes published not later than one week before that day.

(4) The extent of any amendment of any enactment or instrument contained in this Order is the same as that of the enactment or instrument amended, but article 7 applies to England only.

(5) In this Order—

“the 2001 Order” means the Health Professions Order 2001(1);

“AODP register” means Part 1 of the register of operating department practitioners maintained by the Association of Operating Department Practitioners(2);

“the Council” means the Health Professions Council established under article 3 of the 2001 Order;

“the register” means the register established and maintained under article 5 of the 2001 Order.

(1)

S.I. 2002/254 as amended by S.I. 2003/3148.

(2)

The Association of Operating Department Practitioners is at Lewes Enterprise Centre, 112 Malling Street, Lewes, East Sussex, BN17 2RJ. As a consequence of the coming into force of article 3 of this Order, Part 1 of their register of operating department practitioners is to be transferred to the Health Professions Council, Park House, 184 Kennington Park Road, London SE11 4BU.