The National Health Service (Professions Supplementary to Medicine) Regulations 1974
These Regulations prohibit the employment for the purposes of providing services under the national health service, as reorganised by the National Health Service Reorganisation Act 1973, of chiropodists, dietitians, medical laboratory technicians, occupational therapists, orthoptists, physiotherapists, radiographers or remedial gymnasts unless they are registered under the Professions Supplementary to Medicine Act 1960 or were employed in such capacity immediately before 1st April 1974 in the national health service or local authority welfare services.