Health and Social Care Professionals Act 2005

Monitoring of continuing suitability of education and training programmes.

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49.—(1) A registration board shall, as occasion may require but in any event not less than once in every 5 years, satisfy itself as to—

(a) the suitability of the education, training, assessment and examination provided by any education and training programme approved by the board, and

(b) the clinical training and experience provided in any education and training programme approved by the board.

(2) After complying with subsection (1), a registration board shall make appropriate recommendations to the Minister and the Minister for Education and Science.

Annotations

Modifications (not altering text):

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Functions transferred and references to “Minister for Education” construed (1.06.2023) by Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order 2023 (S.I. No. 291 of 2023), art. 3(1)(a), (2), and sch., in effect as per art. 1(2), subject to transitional provisions in arts. 4-8.

Note that Minister for Education and Skills was renamed Minister for Education (22.10.2020) by Education and Skills (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order 2020 (S.I. No. 450 of 2020), in effect as per art. 1(2).

3. (1) The functions vested in the Minister for Education –

(a) by or under the provisions of an Act specified in column (1) of the Schedule, to the extent specified in column (2) of the Schedule opposite the mention of the Act so specified, and

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are transferred to the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research,Innovation and Science.

(2) References to the Minister for Education contained in any Act or instrument made under such Act and relating to any functions transferred by paragraph (1) shall, from the commencement of this Order, be construed as references to the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research,Innovation and Science.

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Schedule

Short Title of Act and Number

Provision

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(2)

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Health and Social Care Professionals Act 2005 (No. 27 of 2005);

Section 9 (3)(b)(iii); section 28(1)(b)(iii); section 28A(1)(b)(iii); subsections (8) and (9) of section 48; section 49(2)

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