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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-medical-council-constitution-amendment-order-1996/article-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/1630",
  "legislation_title": "The General Medical Council (Constitution) Amendment Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-medical-council-constitution-amendment-order-1996",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the General Medical Council (Constitution) Amendment Order 1996 and shall come into force on 1st November 1996 (apart from Article 3 which shall come into force on 31st October 1996).\n(2) In this Order, “the Constitution Order” means the General Medical Council (Constitution) Order 1979.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1979/112, amended by S.I. 1987/457 and 1989/496."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1630/article/1",
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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."
}