S.I. No. 270/2020 - Health and Social Care Professional Act 2005 (Special Measures Registration Having Regard to Covid19) Order 2020

1. This Order may be cited as the Health and Social Care Professionals Act 2005 (Special measures registration having regard to Covid-19) Order 2020.

2. The 31

st

of December 2020 is specified as the different date for the purposes of section 98(6) of the

Health and Social Care Professionals Act 2005

.

GIVEN under my Official Seal,

29 July, 2020.

STEPHEN DONNELLY,

Minister for Health.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(

This note is not part of the Instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation.

)

This order specifies 31 December 2020 as the date on which a Section 98 registration still in force shall cease to have effect.

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of

4

th August,

2020.

I, STEPHEN DONNELLY, Minister for Health, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 98(7) (inserted by

section 11

of the

Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Covid-19) Act 2020

(No. 2 of 2020)) of the

Health and Social Care Professionals Act 2005

(No. 27 of 2005) (as adapted by the Health and Children (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order 2011 (

S.I. No. 219 of 2011

)), hereby order as follows