{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-chiropractic-council-registration-rules-order-of-council-1999/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-chiropractic-council-registration-rules-order-of-council-1999/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/1856",
  "legislation_title": "The General Chiropractic Council (Registration) Rules Order of Council 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-chiropractic-council-registration-rules-order-of-council-1999",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Rules–\n“the Act” means the Chiropractors Act 1994;\n“applicant” means (except in Rules 9 and 10 and paragraphs 3 to 5 of Schedule 2) a person applying for registration under Rule 4;\n“registration” means registration as a registered chiropractor in the register; and\n“the transitional period” means the period of two years beginning with the opening of the register.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2A) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) Two people are to be treated as related by birth, marriage or civil partnership for the purposes of these Rules if—\n(a) they are spouses or civil partners of each other; or\n(b) one or the spouse or civil partner of one of them bears to the other, spouse or civil partner of the other a relationship of lineal descendant, brother, sister, nephew, niece or first cousin, and\n“spouse or civil partner” for this purpose includes a former spouse or civil partner and a partner other than a spouse or civil partner",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Rule 2(2) omitted (1.9.2009) by virtue of The General Chiropractic Council (Registration) (Amendment) Rules Order of Council 2009 (S.I. 2009/2305), Sch. rules 1, 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Rule 2(2A) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The European Qualifications (Health and Social Care Professions) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/593), reg. 1(2), Sch. 7 para. 12(a) (with reg. 12A, Sch. 7 Pt. 2) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1394, regs. 4, 15); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Rule 2(3) substituted (5.12.2005) by The Civil Partnership Act 2004 (Amendments to Subordinate Legislation) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/2114), art. 2(2), reg. 1, Sch. 2 para. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in rule 2(3) substituted (2.12.2019) by The Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1458), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 55"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 2 in force at 15.6.1999, see rule 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/1856/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:20:41.569261+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."
}