Section 12: Power to regulate clinical training of nurses and midwives (as amended by Section 8 of the Nursing and Midwifery (Registration, etc.) (Amendment) Act, 2022).

(1) In the performance of its duties under this Act, the Council shall from time to time, seek to improve methods employed in the basic and post-basic education of nurses and midwives, and for that purpose the Council may co-operate with recognised bodies interested in the preparation of experimental schemes for the basic and post-basic education of nurses and midwives.
(2) Where the Council is of the opinion that a trial should, in the public interest, be made on a scheme of training and examinations to be undergone and passed by persons as a condition prior to registration under this Act (being training and examinations which differ from prescribed training and examinations but appear to the Council to be no less efficient), the Council may adopt the scheme for such period and in relation to such institutions as may be specified in the resolution; but any such resolution shall be subject to confirmation by the Minister.
(3) A scheme of training and examinations adopted by the Council under subsection (2) of this section shall provide that, for the period of its adoption, persons who, in an institution specified in the adopting resolution undergo the training specified therein to the satisfaction of the Council and thereafter pass the prescribed examinations shall, on due compliance with all other requirements of this Act, be entitled to registration according to the requirement of the case, anything to the contrary in this Act notwithstanding.
(4) A scheme of training and examinations under this section may contain such incidental and supplementary provisions (including provision for charging fees in respect of the undergoing of training and examination specified in the scheme) as the Council may consider necessary.
(5) Any scheme of training and examinations adopted under this section may in like manner as is provided for its adoption, be extended for such period as the Council may think fit.