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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dentists-act-1984-medical-authorities-order-2025/section-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2025/984",
  "legislation_title": "The Dentists Act 1984 (Medical Authorities) Order 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dentists-act-1984-medical-authorities-order-2025",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Designation of University of Portsmouth",
  "text": "The University of Portsmouth is designated for the purposes of article 7(4)(b) of the Health Care and Associated Professions (Miscellaneous Amendments and Practitioner Psychologists) Order 2009 and accordingly is a “medical authority” for the purposes of section 3 of the Dentists Act 1984 (power of medical authorities to hold examinations and grant licences in dentistry).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1984 c. 24; section 3(3) was amended by article 2(a) and the Schedule to S.I. 1987/2047 and modified by article 1(2)(a) of S.I. 2008/1774 and articles 1(2)(a), 7(4), 9 and 10 of S.I. 2009/1182."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/984/section/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:11:59.659449+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."
}