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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-optical-council-membership-order-of-council-2001/schedule/paragraph-7",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2001/3057",
  "legislation_title": "The General Optical Council (Membership) Order of Council 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-optical-council-membership-order-of-council-2001",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/7",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Not less than five months before the date on which the members of the Council for the time being elected to represent registered opticians are due to retire the Returning Officer shall fix a nomination day and shall publish the date he has fixed for his purpose.\n(2) Not less than twenty-one days before the nomination day thus fixed and published the Returning Officer shall send to all registered ophthalmic opticians whose registered addresses are in the United Kingdom a notice in the form set out in Appendix A to this Scheme, specifying the address to which all nomination forms are to be returned, and the date of the nomination day, accompanied by a nomination paper in the form set out in Appendix B to this Scheme, and to all registered dispensing opticians whose registered addresses are in the United Kingdom a similar notice accompanied by a nomination paper in the form set out in Appendix C to this Scheme.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "word substituted for words",
      "affecting": "uksi/2005/848",
      "affecting_title": "The Opticians Act 1989 (Amendment) Order 2005"
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      "affecting": "uksi/2005/848",
      "affecting_title": "The Opticians Act 1989 (Amendment) Order 2005"
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/3057/schedule/paragraph/7",
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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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