Statutory Instruments
2006 No. 1996
HEALTH CARE AND ASSOCIATED PROFESSIONS
HEALTH PROFESSIONS
The Health Professions (Parts of and Entries in the Register) (Amendment) Order of Council 2006
Made
19th July 2006
Laid before Parliament
31st July 2006
Coming into force
21st August 2006
At the Council Chamber, Whitehall, the 19th July day of July 2006
By the Lords of Her Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council
Their Lordships make the following Order in exercise of their powers conferred under article 6(3)(a) of the Health Professions Order 2001( 1 ).
Their Lordships have consulted the Health Professions Council in accordance with article 6(4) of that Order.
Citation and commencement
1. This Order may be cited as the Health Professions (Parts of and Entries in the Register) (Amendment) Order of Council 2006 and shall come into force on 21st August 2006.
Amendment of article 6 of the Health Professions (Parts of and Entries in the Register) Order of Council 2003
2. In the Health Professions (Parts of and Entries in the Register) Order of Council 2003( 2 ), in article 6 (entries indicating qualifications or competence), after paragraph (2) insert—
“ (3) The entries in Parts 2 (Chiropodists and Podiatrists), 9 (Physiotherapists) and 11 (Radiographers: Diagnostic or Therapeutic) of the register may include an entry indicating that a registrant is qualified to order drugs, medicines and appliances as a supplementary prescriber for the purposes of the Prescription Only Medicines (Human Use) Order 1997 ( 3 ) .
(4) The Council may also include such entry in the register as it considers appropriate to indicate that a registrant possesses any other qualification (whether or not it is an approved qualification) or competence in a particular field or at a particular level of practice. ” .
A K Galloway
Clerk of the Privy Council