{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-medical-advisory-service-act-1972/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-medical-advisory-service-act-1972/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1972/28",
  "legislation_title": "Employment Medical Advisory Service Act 1972",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-medical-advisory-service-act-1972",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to provide for the establishment by the Secretary of State of an employment medical advisory service, to amend the Factories Act 1961 in relation to medical arrangements and related matters and in relation to the obstruction of inspectors, and for purposes connected therewith.\n[11th May 1972]",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Act amended by S.I. 1988/1222, regs. 3, 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Act (except ss. 1, 6 and Sch. 1) amended by S.I. 1990/1380, reg. 3Act (except ss. 1, 6 and Sch. 1) saved by virtue of Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 (c. 37, SIF 43:3), s. 53, Sch. 1 and Tay Road Bridge Order Confirmation Act 1991 (c. iv), Sch. Pt. VII, s. 62"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Act not in force at Royal Assent see s. 9(2): Act wholly in force at 1. 2. 1973"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1972/28/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:49:02.483116+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."
}