Statutory Instruments
2000 No. 217 (C. 6)
OSTEOPATHS
The Osteopaths Act 1993 (Commencement No. 5) Order 2000
Made
2nd February 2000
The Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section 42(2) and (4) of the Osteopaths Act 1993( 1 ), hereby makes the following Order:—
Citation and interpretation
1. —(1) This Order may be cited as the Osteopaths Act 1993 (Commencement No. 5) Order 2000.
(2) In this Order, “the Act” means the Osteopaths Act 1993 .
Appointed Day
2. 8th March 2000 is the day appointed for the coming into force of the whole of the Act so far as it is not already in force, except—
(a) section 1(4) (which introduces Part I of the Schedule) so far as it relates to the paragraphs in the Schedule to the Act referred to in paragraph (d) of this article;
(b) section 7(3) (which provides that an osteopath whose registration has been suspended ceases to be a registered osteopath for the purposes of section 32(1));
(c) section 32(1) (which provides that a person who describes himself in certain ways is guilty of an offence unless he is a registered osteopath) and section 32(3) so far as it relates to section 32(1); and
(d) in the Schedule (the General Council and its Committees), paragraphs 3, 9, 10, 12, 14(1), 14(3)(d), 14(4) and 14(5)(a).
Alan Milburn
Secretary of State for Health
2nd February 2000
1993 c. 21 , amended by the Chiropractors Act 1994 (c. 17) , Schedule 2.