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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-rehabilitation-of-offenders-act-1974-exceptions-amendment-england-and-wales-order-2012/article-6",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2012/9780111524237",
  "legislation_title": "The Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-rehabilitation-of-offenders-act-1974-exceptions-amendment-england-and-wales-order-2012",
  "path": "article/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Health care professionals",
  "text": "(1) Schedule 1 is amended as follows.\n(2) In Part I—\n(a) for paragraph 1 substitute—\n“1. Health care professional.”, and\n(b) omit paragraphs 4, 6, 7, 8, 8A, 10, 11 and 12.\n(3) In Part IV—\n(a) after the definition of “head of legal practice of a licensed body” insert—\n““health care professional” means a person who is a member of a profession regulated by a body mentioned in subsection (3) of section 25 of the National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002 (and for the purposes of this definition subsection (3A) of that section is to be ignored);”, and\n(b) omit the definitions of “registered chiropractor”, “registered dental care professional”, “registered osteopath”, “registered pharmacist” and “registered pharmacy technician”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Paragraph 4 was substituted by S.I. 2009/1182."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Paragraph 7 was amended by S.I. 2005/848."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Paragraphs 8 and 8A were substituted by S.I. 2007/289 and were saved by S.I. 2010/231."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Paragraph 10 was amended by S.I. 2003/1590."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "Paragraph 11 was inserted by the Osteopaths Act 1993 (c. 21), section 39(2)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "Paragraph 12 was inserted by the Chiropractors Act 1994 (c. 17), section 40(2)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f7",
      "text": "2002 c. 17. Section 25(3) has been amended by the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (c. 14), Schedule 10, paragraph 17, the Health and Social Care Act 2012, Schedule 15, Part 2, paragraph 56(b), and S.I. 2010/231."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f8",
      "text": "Section 25(3A) was inserted by the Health and Social Care Act 2012, section 220(6)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f9",
      "text": "The definition of “registered chiropractor” was inserted by the Chiropractors Act 1994, section 40(4)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f10",
      "text": "The definition of “registered dental care professional” was inserted by S.I. 2009/1182."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f11",
      "text": "The definition of “registered osteopath” was inserted by the Osteopaths Act 1994, section 39(4)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f12",
      "text": "The definitions of “registered pharmacist” and “registered pharmacy technician” were inserted by S.I. 2007/289 and substituted by S.I. 2010/231."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2012/9780111524237/article/6",
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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."
}