{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-medical-services-regulations-northern-ireland-1997/regulation-33",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-medical-services-regulations-northern-ireland-1997/regulation-33.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1997/380",
  "legislation_title": "General Medical Services Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-medical-services-regulations-northern-ireland-1997",
  "path": "regulation/33",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "33",
  "heading": "Removal from the obstetric list",
  "text": "(1) A doctor’s name shall be removed from the obstetric list only if—\n(a) it has been removed from the medical list pursuant to regulation 6; or\n(b) the Board is satisfied that he has never provided, or has ceased to provide, maternity medical services; or\n(c) the Obstetric Committee has decided under regulation 32(2) that his name should not be retained on that list.\n(2) On the removal of a doctor’s name from the obstetric list, the Agency shall give each woman for whom he has undertaken to provide maternity medical services notice of her right to apply to another doctor for the provision of such services in accordance with regulation 34.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 33 in operation at 6.10.1997, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "nisr/1997/380",
      "affecting_title": "General Medical Services Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/1999/100",
      "affecting_title": "The Health Services (Pilot Schemes: Miscellaneous Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1997/380/regulation/33",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:27:33.456843+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."
}