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(1) These regulations, which may be cited as the National Health Service (Professions Supplementary to Medicine) Amendment Regulations 1978, shall come into operation on 1st October 1978.
(2) In these regulations “the principal regulations” means the National Health Service (Professions Supplementary to Medicine) Regulations 1974.
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(1) In paragraph (1)(a) of regulation 3 of the principal regulations (requirement to be registered as qualification for specified employment by health authorities) for the words after “appropriate to” there shall be substituted the words “work in that capacity; or”.
(2) For paragraph (1)(b) of that regulation (alternative qualification) there shall be substituted the following—“

(b) he is a person who has never been so registered and, immediately before 1st April 1974, was in employment for which he was qualified by virtue of either regulation 3(b) of the National Health Service (Professions Supplementary to Medicine) Regulations 1964 or regulation 3(b) of the National Assistance (Professions Supplementary to Medicine) Regulations 1964 (employment of unregistered officers who had been similarly employed on 29th June 1964).
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Regulation 2(1) of the principal regulations (definition of “local authority”) is hereby revoked.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Services.
Roland Moyle
Minister of State
Department of Health and Social Security
24th July 1978John Morris
Secretary of State for Wales
27th July 1978