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  "legislation": "uksi/2000/2916",
  "legislation_title": "The General Chiropractic Council (Investigating Committee) Rules Order of Council 2000",
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  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Advice from legal assessors",
  "text": "Without prejudice to the general power of the Committee to take legal advice from a legal assessor appointed under section 27 of the Act, the Committee may take legal advice from such a legal assessor—\n(a) on any question of law arising in connection with its investigation of an allegation, and, if it concludes that there is a case to answer, in formulating the terms of the allegation to be referred to the Health Committee or the Professional Conduct Committee, as the case may be; and\n(b) on any question of law arising in proceedings under Rule 7 or under section 21(5) of the Act.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
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      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2020/607",
      "affecting_title": "The General Chiropractic Council (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Rules Order of Council 2020"
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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