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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-medical-profession-responsible-officers-regulations-2010/regulation-7",
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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/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Conditions for nomination or appointment of responsible officers and for remaining as responsible officers",
  "text": "(1) The following conditions must be satisfied in order for a person to be nominated or appointed as a responsible officer of a designated body under regulation 5 or 6—\n(a) the person must be a medical practitioner; and\n(b) the person must, at the time of appointment, have been a medical practitioner throughout the previous 5 years, and for this purpose “medical practitioner” means a person who was fully registered under the Act.\n(2) A responsible officer must continue to be a medical practitioner in order to remain as a responsible officer.",
  "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/7",
    "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."
}