The Nursing and Midwifery (Amendment) Order 2017

Amendments to Schedule 1

19.  In Schedule 1 (the Nursing and Midwifery Council and Committees)(1)—

(a) in paragraph 12(1)(c) omit “and the Midwifery Committee”;

(b) in paragraph 15—

(i) in sub-paragraph (2)(h) for “statutory committee” substitute “Practice Committee”,

(ii) in sub-paragraph (4) for “any statutory committee” substitute “a Practice Committee”;

(c) for the heading of Part II substitute “The Practice Committees”;

(d) omit paragraph 16;

(e) in paragraph 17(1)(a) omit “size and”;

(f) in paragraph 18—

(i) for sub-paragraph (10A) substitute—

“(10A) In exercising a function under article 26D, 29, 30 or 33, the Fitness to Practise Committee (or any panel by which the function is exercisable as mentioned in paragraph 17(1A) of this Schedule) must have regard to the over-arching objective.”,

(ii) omit sub-paragraph (10B),

(iii) in sub-paragraph (10C) for “sub-paragraphs (10A) and (10B) to the over-arching objective are” substitute “sub-paragraph (10A) to the over-arching objective is”.

(1)

Schedule 1 was amended by the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 (c.43), section 187(8), Schedule 12, paragraph 7, by the Health Act 2006 (c.28), section 80(1) and (2), Schedule 8, paragraph 47 and Schedule 9 and by the Health and Social Care (Safety and Quality) Act 2015 (c. 28), section 5(2), Schedule, paragraph (5). It was also amended by S.I. 2008/1485, article 2(1), Schedule 1, paragraph 10; S.I. 2009/1182, article 4(1), Schedule 4, Part 6, paragraph 38(g) and by S.I. 2013/235, article 11, Schedule 2, Part 1, paragraph 51(1) and (2).