This Order approves Rules of the Nursing and Midwifery Council which provide for an election scheme to elect the registrant and alternate members of the Nursing and Midwifery Council. Four registrant members and four alternate members are to be appointed in respect of each of the three parts of the register maintained by the Nursing and Midwifery Council, one of those four being appointed in respect of each national constituency (England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland).