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to regulate the formation, maintenance and publication of the

Register;

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to regulate the conditions of admission to the Register;

(ba) to regulate the issue and renewal of practising certificates;

to regulate the conduct of any examinations which may be prescribed as a condition of admission to the Register and any matters ancillary to or connected with any such examinations;

to prescribe the causes for which the conditions under which and the manner in which nurses may be removed from, or refused registration in the Register, and the procedure for the restoration to the

Register of nurses who have been removed therefrom;

to prescribe the constitution of the Board and to regulate the summoning of meetings of the Board and the proceedings (including the quorum) of the Board;

to enable the Board to constitute committees and to authorise the delegation to committees of any of the powers of the Board and to regulate the proceedings (including the quorum) of committees;

to prescribe the fees to be payable;

generally to make provision for any matters regarding which the Minister considers that provision should be made for the purposes of carrying this Act into effect (including provision for the issue of certificates to nurses registered under this Act and with respect to the titles which may be used and the uniforms or badges which may be worn by nurses so registered), and to prescribe anything which under this Act is to be prescribed.

requiring as a condition of admission of any person to the

Register that person shall have undergone the prescribed training, and shall possess the prescribed experience, in the nursing of the sick;

requiring that the prescribed training shall be carried out either in an institution approved by the Board in that behalf or in the service of the Admiralty, the Army Council or the Air Council; and

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enabling persons who, within a period of 2 years after the date on which the regulations to be made under the provisions of this paragraph comes into operation, make an application in that behalf (in this Act referred to as “an existing nurse’s application”) to be admitted to the Register on producing evidence, to the satisfaction of the Board, that they are of good character, are of the prescribed age, and are persons who were before the coming into force of the Act bona fide engaged in practice as nurses in attendance on the sick under conditions which appear to the Board to be satisfactory for the purposes of this provision and have adequate knowledge and experience of the nursing of the sick.