This Order abolishes, on 2nd May 2005, the Standing Medical Advisory Committee, the Standing Pharmaceutical Advisory Committee and the Standing Nursing and Midwifery Advisory Committee (article 2). Provision was made for their continuing constitution by the National Health Service (Standing Advisory Committees) Order 1981 (“the 1981 Order”). Article 3 amends the 1981 Order by omitting the references to those Committees from the Schedule to that Order.