Regulations, 1988

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MEDI CAL AND KINDRED PROFESSIONS OKDlNANCE

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Training School ror Rl"gistered (General) Nurses (Amend ment) (No. 2)

Regulations, 1988

IN exercise o f the powers conferred by section 80 of the Medical

and Kindred Professions Ordinance, the Mini ster for Social Policy, on

the advice of The Nursing and Midwifery Board, has made the following

regulations: -

I. These regul~lions may be cited as the T raining School for 0 .. ,;00.

RegisTered (General) Nurses (Amendmen t) (No. 2) Regulations, 1988.

and shall be re~d and construed as one with the Training School for

Registered (General) Nurses Regulations, 1986, hereinafter referred L.N . SS of 1986.

to as .. the principal regulations".

For paragraph (3) of regulation 20 of the principal regulaTions Am<ndo

.. ~uI.1';on 20 of

there shall be substituted the following par~graph s:-

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"(3) NotwithSTanding any of the provisions of these

regulations. any person -

(a) whose name is entered in the roll of nurses in

accordance wiTh The provisions of The Medical and Kindred

Professions Ordinance, and

(b)

who satisfies the condiTions for admission 10 The

tr~ining school in lerms of regul ation 4 of these regulations,

,od

(c) who after having undergone a twelve week bridging

course of training at a training sc hool , has completed further

training in accordance WiTh The scheme of Training laid down

in The Second Schedule TO Ihese regulations starting from the

sc vcntythird week of training of such schemeoftraining,-

shall be ent it led to si t for the final examin ation referred to in

regulation 15 of These regulations with the other STudenTS in the

group who have at the time completed the full relative training in

accordance with such scheme, a nd the provisions of paragraphs

(2), (3) and (4) of regulaTion 14, of regulations 15, ]6, 17, 18 and

19 and of Ihe preceding paragraphs of this regulation shall mu/a/is

mUlandis apply to such person.

(4) The Principal Nursing Tutor may. on the advice o~

The Nursing and Midwifery Board. allocate in respecT of:I.IlY person

TO whom paragraph (3) of this regulation applies, additional

theoretical instrUCTion in lieu of an eq uivalenT period of practical

nursing expe rience from such periods laid down in The Second

Schedule to the se regul~tions

Provided that no such person shall miss more than fifty

per cent of the period of practical nursing experience in any study

block referred to in the Second Schedule to thcse regulations after

the seventy third week of such training.".