(1)    This Order may be cited as the Health Professions (Transitional Provisions) Order of Council 2004 and shall come into force on 18th October 2004.

(2)    In this Order—

“AODP” means the Association of Operating Department Practitioners;

“the ODP Order” means the Health Professions (Operating Department Practitioners and Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2004; and

“the Registration and Fees Rules” means the Health Professions Council (Registration and Fees) Rules 2003 set out in the Schedule to the Health Professions Council (Registration and Fees) Rules Order of Council 2003.

For the purposes of the Registration and Fees Rules—

(a)    the first registration period of a person who on the date of the coming into force of article 3(3)(f) of the ODP Order, is transferred to the register from the AODP register will begin on the date of the coming into force of article 3(3)(f) of the ODP Order and end on 30th November 2004; and

(b)    a person who is transferred as mentioned in paragraph (a) shall not be liable to pay a registration fee in respect of his first registration period.

AK Galloway

Clerk of the Privy Council

This Order makes transitional provisions arising out of the application of the Health Professions Order 2001 to operating department practitioners by the Health Professions (Operating Department Practitioners and Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2004. It provides for the date of expiry of the first registration period for operating department practitioners who are transferred from the register maintained by the Association of Operating Department Practitioners to the register maintained by the Health Professions Council and for no fee to be payable for that registration period.