Explanatory note

This Order amends the Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors (Parts of the Register) Order 1983 (“the Parts of the Register Order”) and the Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors (Educational Policy Advisory Committee) Order 1983 (“the Educational Policy Advisory Committee Order”).

Article 2 substitutes a reference to “persons suffering from learning disabilities” for a reference to “persons suffering from mental handicap” in the Educational Policy Advisory Committee Order. This reflects a change of terminology in use in the nursing profession.

Article 3 amends the entries in the Parts of the Register Order relating to parts 5, 6 and 14 of the register of qualified nurses, midwives and health visitors maintained under section 7 of the Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors Act 1997. Again, it substitutes a reference to learning disabilities nursing for the previous reference to mental handicap nursing.

Article 4 confirms that the change in terminology has no effect on the continuing registration of nurses registered in parts 5, 6 or 14 of the register, restoration to any of those parts of the register, or the entitlement of nurses who have been trained in mental handicap nursing to registration in any of those parts.

This Order imposes no costs on business.