The Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors Act 1979 (Amendment) Regulations 1996
These Regulations amend sections 11 and 22B of the Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors Act 1979 (“the Act”) so as to ensure that a nurse responsible for general care or a midwife who is not an EEA national but who holds a qualification which the United Kingdom is required by Directive 77/452/EEC or 80/154/EEC to recognise where it is held by an EEA national, is treated, for the purposes of section 11 (registration) or section 22B(1) (visiting EEA nurses and midwives), as if he were an EEA national (articles 48 and 52 of the Treaty of Rome and article 11 of Council Regulation (EEC) No. 1612/68 (O.J. No. L257, 19.10.68, p. 1)).