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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/appointment-of-consultants-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2013/note",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2013/114",
  "legislation_title": "Appointment of Consultants (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2013",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Appointment of Consultants Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996 (“the 1996 Regulations”).\nRegulation 2 to 4 makes minor amendments to the 1996 regulations.\nRegulation 5(a) to (d) makes minor amendments to the 1996 Regulations which update terminology. Regulation 5(e) adds two appointments to which the 1996 Regulations do not apply. The first exemption applies to a person who has been in post as a consultant with the medical services of the army, navy or air force and is appointed to a consultant post in one of the bodies to whom the 1996 Regulations apply without moving location and without the duties involved in the post altering in any significant way. The second exemption applies to a consultant who retires but then returns to a very similar post in the same body, albeit that the terms of his employment may have altered.\nRegulation 6 allows one of the advertisements for a consultant appointment to be in electronic form.\nRegulations 8, 9 and 10 make a number of amendments to the core members of the Advisory Appointments Committees.",
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  "version": "current",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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