{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-professions-wales-establishment-membership-constitution-and-functions-order-2004/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-professions-wales-establishment-membership-constitution-and-functions-order-2004/note.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2004/551",
  "legislation_title": "The Health Professions Wales (Establishment, Membership, Constitution and Functions) Order 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-professions-wales-establishment-membership-constitution-and-functions-order-2004",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order establishes a body corporate to be known as Health Professions Wales or Proffesiynau Iechyd Cymru (“HPW”) (article 2).\nHPW is established for the purpose of undertaking functions in relation to health care professions and health care support workers.\nHPW will undertake certain functions on behalf of the Assembly in respect of promoting and advising on the quality and provision of education, training and practice of health care professions, local supervising authority for midwives and functions under section 63 of the Health Services and Public Health Act 1963 (article 3(2)(a)). HPW will also undertake certain functions in Wales on behalf of bodies such as the Health Professions Council, the Nursing and Midwifery Council (article 3(2)(b),(c) and (d)).\nThis Order also makes provisions for the constitution and membership of HPW including procedural and administrative arrangements (articles 6 to 12).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2004/551/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:09:20.261481+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}