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(This note is not part of the Order)

The Rules approved this Order, made by the United Kingdom Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting, further amend the Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors Rules approved by the Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors Rules Approval Order 1983 (S.I. 1983/873).

The Rules make new provision prescribing the qualifications necessary to be eligible to be a supervisor of midwives under what is now section 15(3) of the Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors Act 1997 and specify certain of the continuing education requirements of supervisors of midwives.