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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-medical-council-constitution-order-2008/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2008/2554",
  "legislation_title": "The General Medical Council (Constitution) Order 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-medical-council-constitution-order-2008",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Health Care And Associated Professions\nDoctors\nMade 29th September 2008\nLaid before Parliament 6th October 2008\nComing into force in accordance with article 1(1)\nAt the Council Chamber, Whitehall, the 29th day of September 2008\nBy the Lords of Her Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council\nTheir Lordships make the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 1(2) of, and paragraph 1B of Schedule 1 to, the Medical Act 1983.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1983 c.54; section 1(2) of the Act was substituted by, and paragraph 1B of Schedule 1 to the Act was inserted by, S.I. 2008/1774."
    }
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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."
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