The Nursing and Midwifery (Transfer of Staff and Property etc.) Order 2002

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order contains provisions consequential on the abolition of the United Kingdom Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting (“UKCC”), and the National Boards for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting, and the establishment of the Nursing and Midwifery Council. It provides for the transfer of staff from the UKCC and the Welsh, Scottish and Northern Ireland National Boards (constituted in accordance with sections 1 and 5 respectively of the Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors Act 1997) to new employers who are identified in the Schedule to the Order (article 2). It also provides for the transfer of property, rights and liabilities from those bodies and the English National Board to the relevant new employer (article 3), for the winding up of the affairs of the old employers (article 4) and for continuity in the exercise of functions between the old employers and the new employers (article 5).