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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-optical-council-membership-order-of-council-1998/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1998/3117",
  "legislation_title": "The General Optical Council (Membership) Order of Council 1998",
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  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order provides that certain alterations shall be made in the membership of the General Optical Council and makes consequential amendments to Schedule 1 to the Opticians Act 1989. These alterations and amendments are made in two stages, one on 1st January 1999, and the other on 1st January 2002.\nThe amendments to Schedule 1 include amendments to reflect changes in the names of certain bodies and to allow a member of the Council to be nominated by the Association of British Dispensing Opticians after consulting training institutions engaged in the education or examination of persons training as dispensing opticians.",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/3117/note",
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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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