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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-medical-services-regulations-northern-ireland-1997/schedule-4/paragraph-1",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1997/380",
  "legislation_title": "General Medical Services Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997",
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  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The services referred to in regulation 27(3)(a) shall comprise—\n(a) the monitoring—\n(i) by the consideration of information concerning the child received by or on behalf of the doctor; and\n(ii) on any occasion when the child is examined or observed by or on behalf of the doctor (whether pursuant to sub-paragraph (b) or otherwise),\nof the health, well-being and physical, mental and social development (all of which characteristics are referred to in this Schedule as “development”) for the child while under the age of 5 years with a view to detecting any deviations from normal development;\n(b) the examination of the child, by or on behalf of the doctor, on so many occasions and at such intervals as shall have been agreed by the Board in whose area the child resides, for the purposes of the provision of child health surveillance services generally in that area.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
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      "type": "I",
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      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 1 in operation at 6.10.1997, see reg. 1"
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1997/380/schedule/4/paragraph/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."
}