{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-medicines-act-1988-commencement-no-4-order-1989/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-medicines-act-1988-commencement-no-4-order-1989/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/826",
  "legislation_title": "The Health and Medicines Act 1988 (Commencement No. 4) Order 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-medicines-act-1988-commencement-no-4-order-1989",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Days appointed",
  "text": "(1) 1st April 1990 is the day appointed for the coming into force of section 9 of the 1988 Act (reduction of practitioner’s pension on re-employment after attaining the age of 65).\n(2) 9th June 1989 is the day appointed for the coming into force of –\n(a) section 8 of the 1988 Act (retirement of practitioners) except for –\n(i) in subsection (1), paragraph (a),\n(ii) in subsection (2), the words “(a) or”;\n(b) section 25(1) of the 1988 Act (consequential amendments) so far as it relates to paragraphs 4 and 11 of Schedule 2 to the 1988 Act, and to paragraphs 1 and 9 of that Schedule to the extent that they have effect for the purposes of those paragraphs;",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/826/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:44:28.808869+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."
}