
1 
This order may be cited as the 
Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors Act 1979 (Commencement No. 4) Order 1983
.
2 
The day appointed for the coming into
operation of any provision of the Nurses, Midwives
and Health Visitors Act 1979 specified in the
first column of the Schedule to this order which relates to the matter specified
in the first in relation to that provision in the second column of that Schedule
shall be 1st July 1983.
Norman Fowler
One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State
28th April 1983
SCHEDULE
Article 2



Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors Act 1979 Subject matter

Section 2 
Functions of Central Council

Section 4 
Midwifery Committee

Section 6 
Functions of National Boards

Section 9 
Local training committees

Section 10 
Professional register

Section 11 
Admission to register

Section 12 
Removal from, and restoration to, register
Section 13 Appeals

Section 14 
False claim of professional qualification
Section 15 Rules as to midwifery practice
Section 16 Local supervision of midwifery practice
Section
17 Attendance
by unqualified persons at childbirth
Section 19
so far as not already in force Finances
of Central Council and National Boards
Section 21
so far as not already in force Dissolution
of existing bodies

Section 22 
Central Council rules

Section 23 so far as not already in force Interpretation and supplementary
Schedule 3 Proceedings before Central Council and committees


Schedule 5 
Transitional provisions etc.

Schedule 7 
Amendment of enactments

Schedule 8 
Repeals