{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-act-1999/schedule-3/paragraph-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-act-1999/schedule-3/paragraph-10.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1999/8",
  "legislation_title": "Health Act 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-act-1999",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/10",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In this Schedule—\n“dental practitioner” means a person registered in the dentists register under the Dentists Act 1984,\n“enactment” means an enactment contained in, or in an instrument made under—\n(a)an Act of Parliament,\n(b)an Act of the Scottish Parliament,\n(c)a Measure or Act of the National Assembly for Wales, or\n(d)Northern Ireland legislation,\n“functions” includes powers and duties,\n“medical practitioner” means a registered medical practitioner as defined by Schedule 1 to the Interpretation Act 1978,\n“Order” means an Order in Council under section 60,\n“regulatory body”, in relation to any profession or any social care workers in England, means the body (or main body) responsible for the regulation of the profession or the social care workers in England concerned,\n“social care work in England” and “social care workers in England” have the meaning given by section 60.\n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 3 para. 10: definitions inserted (1.10.2008) by Health and Social Care Act 2008 (c. 14), ss. 111, 170(3), Sch. 8 para. 8(a); S.I. 2008/2497, art. 3(b)(iii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 3 para. 10 inserted (27.3.2012 for specified purposes, 1.8.2012 in so far as not already in force) by Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c. 7), ss. 211(7)(b)(i), 306(1)(d)(4) (with s. 230(6)); S.I. 2012/1319, art. 2(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 3 para. 10 inserted (27.3.2012 for specified purposes, 1.8.2012 in so far as not already in force) by Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c. 7), ss. 211(7)(b)(ii), 306(1)(d)(4) (with s. 230(6)); S.I. 2012/1319, art. 2(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 3 para. 10 substituted (2.12.2019) by Children and Social Work Act 2017 (c. 16), ss. 61(4)(a), 70(2); S.I. 2019/1436, reg. 2(n)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 3 para. 10 omitted (1.1.2009) and repealed (prosp.) by virtue of Health and Social Care Act 2008 (c. 14), ss. 111, 166, 170(3), Sch. 8 para. 8(b), Sch. 15 Pt. 2; S.I. 2008/3244, art. 3(a)(c)(iii)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1999/8/schedule/3/paragraph/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:22:03.793953+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."
}