# The Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors Act 1979 (Commencement No. 4) Order 1983

S.I. 1983/668 · made 28 April 1983

This Order brings into operation those remaining provisions of the Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors Act 1979 for which no date has been appointed by previous commencement orders. The main provisions covered by the Order concern:— the functions of the United Kingdom Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting and the National Boards for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting ( sections 2 and 6) ; the dissolution of the existing nursing bodies (section 21) ; the professional register ( section 10) ; removal from the register ( section 12) ; and offences ( sections 14 and 17) .

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## Introductory text

NURSES, MIDWIVES AND HEALTH VISITORS
Made 28th April 1983
In exercise of the power conferred on me by section 24(2) of the Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors Act 1979, I hereby make the following order:—

## 1 

This order may be cited as the Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors Act 1979 (Commencement No. 4) Order 1983 .

## 2 

The day appointed for the coming into operation of any provision of the Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors Act 1979 specified in the first column of the Schedule to this order which relates to the matter specified in the first in relation to that provision in the second column of that Schedule shall be 1st July 1983.

## Signature

Norman Fowler
One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State
28th April 1983

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Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors Act 1979
Subject matter
Section 2
Functions of Central Council
Section 4
Midwifery Committee
Section 6
Functions of National Boards
Section 9
Local training committees
Section 10
Professional register
Section 11
Admission to register
Section 12
Removal from, and restoration to, register
Section 13
Appeals
Section 14
False claim of professional qualification
Section 15
Rules as to midwifery practice
Section 16
Local supervision of midwifery practice
Section 17
Attendance by unqualified persons at childbirth
Section 19 so far as not already in force
Finances of Central Council and National Boards
Section 21 so far as not already in force
Dissolution of existing bodies
Section 22
Central Council rules
Section 23 so far as not already in force
Interpretation and supplementary
Schedule 3
Proceedings before Central Council and committees
Schedule 5
Transitional provisions etc.
Schedule 7
Amendment of enactments
Schedule 8
Repeals

## Explanatory note

This Order brings into operation those remaining provisions of the Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors Act 1979 for which no date has been appointed by previous commencement orders. The main provisions covered by the Order concern:—
(a) the functions of the United Kingdom Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting and the National Boards for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting ( sections 2 and 6) ;
(b) the dissolution of the existing nursing bodies (section 21) ;
(c) the professional register ( section 10) ;
(d) removal from the register ( section 12) ; and
(e) offences ( sections 14 and 17) .

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