Nurses Act, 1950

Removal from register of nurses.

45.—(1) The Board may, in accordance with rules and subject to section 46 of this Act, remove the name of a person from the register of nurses, or from a division or divisions of the register of nurses, and in the case of the removal of the name of a midwife shall inform every local supervising authority concerned and the Minister.

(2) The rules made for the purposes of this section shall, in particular, provide that, where it is proposed to remove the name of any person from a division of the register of nurses other than the midwives division proceedings in that behalf shall be instituted before the Board and that in those proceedings the defendant shall have the opportunity of answering the allegations made against the defendant.

(3) The rules made for the purposes of this section shall prescribe the causes for which and the conditions under which the name of a nurse may be removed from a division of the register of nurses other than the midwives division, and different rules may be made under this section governing the removal of names from different divisions of the register of nurses.