Statutory Instruments

1999 No. 1855

PROFESSIONS SUPPLEMENTARY TO MEDICINE

The Professions Supplementary to Medicine (Speech and Language Therapists Board) Order of Council 1999

Made

18th June 1999

Coming into force

19th June 1999

At the Council Chamber, Whitehall, the 18th day of June 1999

by the Lords of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council

Whereas the Council for Professions Supplementary to Medicine has, in accordance with the provisions of section 10(1) of the Professions Supplementary to Medicine Act 1960(1), recommended to the Privy Council that the Act should extend to the profession of speech and language therapists:

And whereas a draft of this Order has been laid before Parliament and approved by resolution of each House:

Now, therefore, Their Lordships, in exercise of the powers conferred on Them by section 10(2) of the Act, and all other powers enabling Them in that behalf, after consulting, as boards appearing to Them to be concerned, all the boards established under the Act and existing on the day before that on which this Order was made, are pleased to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows-�

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.-(1) This Order may be cited as the Professions Supplementary to Medicine (Speech and Language Therapists Board) Order of Council 1999 and shall come into force on the day after the day on which it is made.

(2) In this Order, "the Act" means the Professions Supplementary to Medicine Act 1960.

Extension of application of the Act to the profession of speech and language therapists

2. The Act shall have effect as if the profession of speech and language therapists were mentioned in section 1(2) of the Act, and accordingly the First Schedule to the Act (constitutions of the Council and boards, and supplementary provisions) shall have effect as if there were made the further alterations, additions or omissions specified in the Schedule to this Order.

A. K. Galloway

Clerk of the Privy Council

Article 2

SCHEDULEAlterations, Additions and Omissions in the First Schedule to the Act

1. Part I of the First Schedule to the Act (constitutions of the Council and boards, and supplementary provisions) shall have effect as if-�

(a)in paragraph 1(1), for "twenty-seven" there were substituted "thirty";

(b)in paragraph 1(1)(b), for "seven" there were substituted "nine" and for "three only shall be registered medical practitioners" there were substituted "four only shall be registered medical practitioners";

(c)in paragraph 1(1)(c), for "nine" there were substituted "ten";

(d)in paragraph 3(2), for "the professions of arts therapist, orthoptist and prosthetist and orthotist" there were substituted "the professions of arts therapists, orthoptists, prosthetists and orthotists, and speech and language therapists"; and

(e)after paragraph 3(5) there were added the following sub-paragraph-�

"(6) Before making an appointment under this paragraph as respects the profession of speech and language therapists the said Ministers shall consult the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists.".

2. Part II of the First Schedule to the Act (Constitution of the boards) shall have effect as if-�

(a)in the table at the end of paragraph 4(1), under the line relating to membership of the Radiographers Board, there were inserted the entries set out below in relation to the Speech and Language Therapists Board-�

(1)	(2)	(3)				(4)				(5)	(6)
			(a)	(b)	(c)	(d)	(e)	(f)	(g)
Board	Total number of members	Representative members	The English Colleges jointly	The Scottish Corporations jointly	The British Medical Association	The Society of Medical Officers of Health	The Royal College of Physicians of London	The Royal College of Surgeons of England	The Royal College of Psychiatrists	Experts in professional education	Other members
Speech and Language Therapists	15	8	1	1	-	-	-	-	-	1	4

(b)after paragraph 7(4B) there were inserted the following sub-paragraph-�

"(4C) Of the four members of the Speech and Language Therapists Board appointed in pursuance of the said paragraph (d)-�

(a)two shall be members of bodies which represent the interests of employers of speech and language therapists;

(b)one shall be a member of a body which represents the interests of patients of speech and language therapists or of carers of such patients (or of both); and

(c)one shall be an educational psychologist."; and

(c)in paragraph 8(3), for "(2), (3), (4) or (5)" there were substituted "(2), (3), (4), (5) or (6)".

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order extends the Professions Supplementary to Medicine Act 1960 to the profession of speech and language therapists. The Order has the effect, in consequence of that extension, of establishing the Speech and Language Therapists Board. It makes amendments to that Act in relation to the composition of the Council for Professions Supplementary to Medicine and makes specific provision in respect of the composition of the Speech and Language Therapists Board.

(1)

1960 c. 66. The Act was extended to the profession of orthoptists by S.I. 1966/990, to the profession of prosthetists and orthotists by S.I. 1997/504, and to the profession of arts therapists by S.I. 1997/1121; and ceased to extend to the profession of remedial gymnasts by virtue of S.I. 1986/630. The First Schedule to the Act has effect as if amended by all four instruments.