Explanatory note

The Rules approved by this Order, and made by the United Kingdom Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting (“the Council”), modify in certain cases the Rules approved by the Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors Rules Approval Order 1983 so as to reduce from 3 years to six months the period for which a person may remain registered as a nurse, midwife or health visitor (“practitioner”) before she becomes liable to pay a fee for renewing her registration. The reduced registration period applies only in the case of a practitioner whose previously ineffective registration is again made effective following her application to the Council for the purpose, provided that the application is accompanied by a declaration to the effect that she proposes to practise only in response to a need for additional practitioners which arises out of the present hostilities in the Gulf region.