The National Health Service (Professions Supplementary to Medicine) Amendment Regulations 2000

• Citation: S.I. 2000/523
• Sections: 2

Section 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

(1) These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service (Professions Supplementary to Medicine) Amendment Regulations 2000, and shall come into force on 1st April 2000.

(2) In these Regulations, “the principal Regulations” means the National Health Service (Professions Supplementary to Medicine) Regulations 1974 .

(3) These Regulations extend to England

Section 2 Amendment of regulation 3 of the principal Regulations

(1) Regulation 3 of the principal Regulations (employment of officers) shall be amended as follows.

(2) In paragraph (1), for “radiographer or remedial gymnast” there shall be substituted “or radiographer” .

(3) After paragraph (1), there shall be inserted the following paragraph–

(1A) No person shall be employed as an officer of an authority to which this regulation applies, in the capacity of prosthetist and orthotist or arts therapist unless–

(a) he is registered in respect of that profession; or

(b) he is a person who has never been registered as a prosthetist and orthotist or arts therapist, but who, immediately before 1st April 2000, was employed in that capacity by an authority to which this regulation applies.

(4) For paragraph (2) there shall be substituted–

(2) The authorities to which this regulation applies are–

(a) Health

(b) Special Health Authorities.