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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-nursing-and-midwifery-amendment-order-2017/schedule-1/paragraph-1",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2017/9780111153444",
  "legislation_title": "The Nursing and Midwifery (Amendment) Order 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-nursing-and-midwifery-amendment-order-2017",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Amendments to article 3",
  "text": "(1) In article 3 (the Nursing and Midwifery Council and its Committees)—\n(a) for paragraph (9) substitute—\n“(9) There shall be two committees of the Council, to be known as—\n(a) the Investigating Committee; and\n(b) the Fitness to Practise Committee.”.\n(b) for paragraph (10) substitute—\n“(10) The two committees mentioned in paragraph (9) are referred to in this Order as “the Practice Committees”.”;\n(c) in paragraphs (11) and (17) for “statutory committees” substitute “Practice Committees”.\n(2) Before 28th July 2017 paragraphs (9) and (10) of article 3 are to have effect without the amendments made by paragraph 1(1) and—\n(a) in paragraph (9) as if the reference to—\n(i) “four committees” was to “three committees”,\n(ii) “the Midwifery Committee” was omitted; and\n(b) in paragraph (10), as if the reference to “four committees” was to “three committees”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Article 3 was amended by S.I. 2008/1485, article 2(1), Schedule 1, paragraph 1."
    }
  ],
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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."
}