{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nursing-and-midwifery-order-2001/article-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nursing-and-midwifery-order-2001/article-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2002/253",
  "legislation_title": "The Nursing and Midwifery Order 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nursing-and-midwifery-order-2001",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Establishment and maintenance of register",
  "text": "(1) In accordance with the provisions of this Order the Council shall establish and maintain a register of qualified nurses, midwives and nursing associates.\n(2) The Council shall from time to time—\n(a) establish the standards of proficiency necessary to be admitted to the different parts of the register being the standards it considers necessary for safe and effective practice under that part of the register; and\n(b) prescribe the requirements to be met as to the evidence of good health and good character in order to satisfy the Registrar that an applicant is capable of safe and effective practice as a nurse, midwife or nursing associate.\n(3) The Council shall—\n(a) before prescribing the requirements mentioned in paragraph (2)(b), consult ... the persons referred to in article 3(14); and\n(b) publish those requirements.\n(4) The register shall show, in relation to each registrant, such address and other details as the Council may prescribe.\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 5(1) substituted (12.7.2018 for specified purposes, 28.1.2019 in so far as not already in force) by The Nursing and Midwifery (Amendment) Order 2018 (S.I. 2018/838), art. 1(2)(b)(3), Sch. 1 para. 4(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in art. 5(2)(b) substituted (28.1.2019) by The Nursing and Midwifery (Amendment) Order 2018 (S.I. 2018/838), art. 1(3), Sch. 1 para. 4(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in art. 5(3)(a) omitted (14.5.2009) by virtue of The Health Care and Associated Professions (Miscellaneous Amendments and Practitioner Psychologists) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/1182), art. 1(2)(e), Sch. 4 para. 38(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Art. 5(5) omitted (28.1.2019) by virtue of The Nursing and Midwifery (Amendment) Order 2018 (S.I. 2018/838), art. 1(3), Sch. 1 para. 4(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 5(2)(b) in force at 5.3.2004 for specified purposes as notified in the London Gazette (Issue 57218, published 27.2.2004), see art. 1(2)(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Art. 5(3)(a) in force at 7.7.2003 for specified purposes as notified in the London Gazette (Issue 56984, published 27.6.2003), see art. 1(2)(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I3",
      "text": "Art. 5 in force at 1.8.2004 in so far as not already in force as notified in the London Gazette (Issue 57361, published 21.7.2004), see art. 1(2)(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/253/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:15:34.256557+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."
}