Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2015

Medical assessor - registered nurse

19. Section 2 of the Principal Act is amended in subsection (1) —

(a) in the definition of “medical assessor” (inserted by section 3 of the Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2015 )—

(i) in paragraph (a), by the deletion of “or”, and

(ii) by the insertion of the following paragraph after paragraph (a):

“(aa) an officer of the Minister who is a registered nurse, or”,

and

(b) by the insertion of the following definition:

“ ‘registered nurse’ has the same meaning as it has in the Nurses and Midwives Act 2011 ;”.