Nurses Registration Act 1919
| Act of Parliament | |
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| Long title | An Act to provide for the Registration of Nurses for the Sick. |
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| Citation | 9 & 10 Geo. 5. c. 94 |
| Territorial extent | England and Wales[b] |
| Dates | |
| Royal assent | 23 December 1919 |
| Commencement | 23 December 1919[c] |
| Repealed | 21 April 1957 |
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| Repealed by | Nurses Act 1957 |
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Status: Repealed | |
| Text of statute as originally enacted | |
The Nurses Registration Act 1919 (9 & 10 Geo. 5. c. 94) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
The act was the culmination of a long campaign led by Ethel Gordon Fenwick to establish a register of nurses.
The Minister for Health, Christopher Addison successfully introduced the act, establishing for the first time a register of nurses under the auspices of the General Nursing Council.[1]
There was a general register for all those trained in general nursing, and supplementary registers for mental nursing, mental deficiency nursing, fever nursing, paediatric nursing, and for male nurses[2] There was no mechanism for a nurse to transfer from one part of the register to another without re-qualifying.
Nurses were to be admitted to the register if they had, for three years before 1 November 1919, been bona fide engaged in practice and had adequate knowledge and experience of the nursing of the sick.[3]
Subsequent developments
The whole act was repealed by section 34(1) of, and the fifth schedule to, the Nurses Act 1957 (5 & 6 Eliz. 2. c. 15), which came into force on 21 April 1957.[4]
See also
Notes
- ↑ Section 9(2).
- ↑ Section 9(1).
- ↑ The Acts of Parliament (Commencement) Act 1793.
References
- ↑ Morgan, Kenneth & Jane (1980). Portrait of a progressive : the political career of Christopher, Viscount Addison. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 103, 104, 105.
- ↑ "The Nurses Registration Act 1919". Policy Navigator. Health Foundation. Retrieved 6 June 2017.
- ↑ Abel-Smith, Brian (1960). A History of the Nursing Profession. London: Heinemann. p. 100.
- ↑ "Nurses Act 1957", legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives, Eliz2/5-6 c. 15
External links
- Text of the Nurses Registration Act 1919 as originally enacted or made within the United Kingdom, from legislation.gov.uk.