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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-medical-council-legal-assessors-amendment-rules-2000/article-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2000/1881",
  "legislation_title": "The General Medical Council (Legal Assessors) (Amendment) Rules 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-medical-council-legal-assessors-amendment-rules-2000",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement, interpretation and extent",
  "text": "(1) These Rules may be cited as the General Medical Council (Legal Assessors) (Amendment) Rules 2000 and shall come into force on 16th August 2000.\n(2) In these Rules:—\n(a) “the 1980 Rules” means the General Medical Council (Legal Assessors) Rules 1980; and\n(b) a rule referred to by number alone means the rule so numbered in those Rules.\n(3) These Rules extend to England, Wales and Northern Ireland only.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1980/941. These Rules, which were made under the Medical Act 1978 (c. 12), now have effect under section 43 of, and paragraph 7(3) of Schedule 4 to, the Medical Act 1983, by virtue of section 56, Schedule 6, paragraph 2 of that Act. The 1980 Rules were amended by S.I. 1997/1861."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/1881/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:05:54.820600+00:00"
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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."
}