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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-medical-profession-responsible-officers-regulations-2010/regulation-5",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2010/9780111500286",
  "legislation_title": "The Medical Profession (Responsible Officers) Regulations 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-medical-profession-responsible-officers-regulations-2010",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Duty to nominate or appoint responsible officers",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the following provisions of this regulation, every designated body must nominate or appoint a responsible officer.\n(2) The Department of Health shall nominate or appoint two responsible officers.\n(3) When a responsible officer nominated or appointed in accordance with paragraph (1) or (2) ceases to hold that position, the designated body must nominate or appoint a replacement as soon as reasonably practicable.\n(4) A body listed in Part 2 of the Schedule to these Regulations which is a designated body by virtue of regulation 4(3) is not required to nominate or appoint a responsible officer if, and for so long as, there is no prescribed connection under regulation 10 between that body and any medical practitioner.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2010/9780111500286/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:54:53.728998+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."
}