
1 
This Order may be cited as the Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 1998 and shall come into force on 17th November 1998.
2 
In the Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors (Educational Policy Advisory Committee) Order 1983, in article 2(5)(c)(iii), for “mental handicap” substitute “learning disabilities”.
3 
In the Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors (Parts of the Register) Order 1983, in Schedule 1 (Parts of the Register), in each of the entries for parts 5, 6 and 14, for “mental handicap” substitute “learning disabilities”.
4 
Nothing in this Order shall affect—
(a) the continuing registration of a nurse who is registered in part 5, 6 or 14 of the register on the day on which this Order comes into force;
(b) the restoration to any of those parts of the register of a nurse who has been removed from that part; or
(c) the registration in any of those parts of the register of a person who would have been entitled to registration in that part if this Order had not been made, by virtue of being a nurse trained in the nursing of persons suffering from mental handicap or, as the case may be, a nurse qualified following a course of preparation in mental handicap nursing.
Frank Dobson
One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State,
Department of Health
26th October 1998