Part 1: Main Provisions Section 2 and Schedule 1: Emergency registration of nurses and other health and care professionals
This section and Schedule make temporary modifications to the Nursing and Midwifery Order 2001 and the Health Professions Order 2001, allowing for the temporary registration of certain healthcare professionals.
	On notification from the Secretary of State that an emergency is occurring or about to occur, the Registrar of the Nursing and Midwifery Council has the power to register a person or specified group of persons as a nurse, midwife, or nursing associate. On the same emergency notification procedure by the Secretary of State, the Registrar of the Health and Care Professions Council has the power to register a person or specified group of persons as a member of a ‘relevant profession’ i.e. physiotherapists, paramedics and others.
	The relevant Registrar must be satisfied that the emergency registration requirement is met, i.e. that the person or persons are "fit, proper and suitably experienced to be registered" as a professional, with regard to the emergency.
	Conditions of practice may be imposed, and the relevant Registrar may revoke the registration at any time including where the Registrar suspects that the person’s fitness to practise may be impaired.
	The relevant Registrar must revoke the registration on notification from the Secretary of State that the emergency no longer exists, and transitional provision is made to ensure the Registrar’s power to revoke registration continues after the Act has expired.
	There is no appeal right available where the relevant Registrar has refused to register a person under the emergency provision, or where the Registrar has revoked a person’s registration under the emergency provision.
	If a person breaches a condition to which their registration is subject, anything that is done by the person in breach of the condition, is to be treated as if it has not been done by a professional regulated by the Nursing and Midwifery Council or Health and Care Professions Council.
	For the purposes of the temporary modifications made by section 2 and Schedule 1 to the Act, certain provisions of the Nursing and Midwifery Order 2001 and the Health Professions Order 2001 do not apply to persons registered under the emergency provision. These disapplied provisions relate to the standard registration of healthcare professionals, education and training, and fitness to practise (save for articles enabling identification of an individual).
	It is expected members of these professions who are recently retired, students, trainees and those on sabbatical would be appropriate for emergency registration, but this is not an exhaustive list. It is at the discretion of the Registrars to determine on the emergency registration requirement being met and who to register on a temporary basis.
	The territorial extent and application of this section and Schedule is England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.