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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-nursing-and-midwifery-amendment-order-2018/schedule-2/paragraph-6",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2018/9780111169452",
  "legislation_title": "The Nursing and Midwifery (Amendment) Order 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-nursing-and-midwifery-amendment-order-2018",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/6",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Schedule to the Nursing and Midwifery Council (Fitness to Practise) Rules Order of Council 2004",
  "text": "In the Schedule to the Nursing and Midwifery Council (Fitness to Practise) Rules Order of Council 2004—\n(a) in rule 2 (interpretation)—\n(i) for the definition of “lay” substitute—\n““lay”, in relation to a Case Examiner, means a person who—\n(a) is not and never has been a registered nurse, midwife or nursing associate;\n(b) is not and never has been a registered medical practitioner; and\n(c) does not hold qualifications which would entitle them to apply for registration as a registered nurse, midwife, nursing associate or registered medical practitioner;”,\n(ii) in the definition of “professional” for “registered nurse or midwife” substitute “registered nurse, midwife or nursing associate”;\n(b) in paragraph (3)(a) of rule 3 (notice of allegations of fraudulent or incorrect entries in the register) for “services in, or in relation to, nursing or midwifery” substitute “professional services”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2004/1761."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Rule 2 was amended by rules Scheduled to S.Is 2007/893, 2008/3148, 2012/17 and 2015/52."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Rule 3 was amended by rules Scheduled to S.I. 2012/17, S.I. 2015/52 and S.I. 2017/703."
    }
  ],
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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."
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