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  "legislation": "uksi/2000/2054",
  "legislation_title": "The General Medical Council (Interim Orders Committee) (Transitional Provisions) Rules Order of Council 2000",
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  "path": "schedule/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Commencement",
  "text": "In these Rules—\n“the Committee” means the Preliminary Proceedings Committee;\n“the Order” means the Medical Act 1983 (Amendment) Order 2000;\n“section 42” means section 42 of the Medical Act 1983 .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1983 c. 54. Section 42 was amended by section 3 of the Medical (Professional Performance) Act 1995 (c. 51) and article 11 of the Medical Act 1983 (Amendment) Order 2000."
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  ],
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    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/2004/2608",
      "affecting_title": "The General Medical Council (Fitness to Practise) Rules Order of Council 2004"
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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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