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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/blood-tests-evidence-of-paternity-regulations-1971/regulation-8",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1971/1861",
  "legislation_title": "The Blood Tests (Evidence of Paternity) Regulations 1971",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/blood-tests-evidence-of-paternity-regulations-1971",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Procedure where sampler nominated is unable to take the samples",
  "text": "(1) Where a sampler is unable himself to take samples from all or any of the subjects, he may nominate another medical practitioner or tester to take the samples which he is unable to take.\n(2) The sampler shall record the nomination of the other sampler on the relevant direction forms and shall forward them to the sampler nominated by him.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "word substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2015/1834",
      "affecting_title": "The Blood Tests (Evidence of Paternity) (Amendment) Regulations 2015"
    },
    {
      "type": "word substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2015/1834",
      "affecting_title": "The Blood Tests (Evidence of Paternity) (Amendment) Regulations 2015"
    },
    {
      "type": "am",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/773",
      "affecting_title": "The Blood Tests (Evidence of Paternity) (Amendment) Regulations 2001"
    }
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1971/1861/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T22:38:22.452379+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}