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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-chiropractic-council-professional-conduct-committee-rules-order-of-council-2000/schedule/rule-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-chiropractic-council-professional-conduct-committee-rules-order-of-council-2000/schedule/rule-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2000/3290",
  "legislation_title": "The General Chiropractic Council (Professional Conduct Committee) Rules Order of Council 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-chiropractic-council-professional-conduct-committee-rules-order-of-council-2000",
  "path": "schedule/rule/2",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Rules—\n“the Act\" means the Chiropractors Act 1994;\n“allegation\" means an allegation falling within section 20(1) of the Act;\n“the Committee\" means the Professional Conduct Committee of the Council;\n“the Council\" means the General Chiropractic Council;\n“the legal assessor\" means a legal assessor appointed under section 27 of the Act and nominated by the Registrar under Rule 5(2);\n“party\" means the respondent or the Solicitor, and references to “the parties\" shall be construed accordingly;\n“the respondent\" means the chiropractor to whom an allegation under consideration by the Committee relates;\n“the Solicitor\" means a solicitor appointed by the Registrar for the purposes of presenting the case for the allegation to a hearing held by the Committee.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/3290/schedule/rule/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:08:43.417243+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."
}