The Health Professions Order 2001 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2003

National Health Service (Professions Supplementary to Medicine) (Scotland) Regulations 1974

28.—(1) The National Health Service (Professions Supplementary to Medicine) (Scotland) Regulations 1974(1) are amended in accordance with this paragraph.

(2) In regulation 2 (interpretation), for paragraph (2) substitute—

“(2) For the purposes of these Regulations a person is registered in respect of a profession if he is registered in the register maintained under article 5 of the Health Professions Order 2001 in the part of the register which relates to that profession.”.

(3) In regulation 3 (employment of officers)—

(a) after “chiropodist,” insert “clinical scientist,”;

(b) after “orthotist,” insert “paramedic,”;

(c) for “or radiographer” substitute “, radiographer or speech and language therapist”;

(d) after paragraph (c), add—

“; or

(d) he is a person who has never been registered as a clinical scientist, paramedic or speech and language therapist, but who immediately before 9th July 2003 was employed by a Health Board in the capacity of clinical scientist, paramedic or speech and language therapist.”.

(1)

S.I. 1974/549. The relevant amending instrument is S.S.I. 2000/202.