{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-personal-social-services-act-northern-ireland-2001/section-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-personal-social-services-act-northern-ireland-2001/section-7.json",
  "legislation": "nia/2001/3",
  "legislation_title": "Health and Personal Social Services Act (Northern Ireland) 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-personal-social-services-act-northern-ireland-2001",
  "path": "section/7",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Rules about registration",
  "text": "The Council may by rules make provision about the registration of persons under this Part and, in particular—\n(a) as to the keeping of the register;\n(b) as to the documentary and other evidence to be produced by those applying under section 4(1) for registration or applying for additional qualifications to be recorded, or for any entry in the register to be altered or restored;\n(c) for a person's registration to remain effective without limitation of time (subject to removal from the register ... in accordance with rules made by virtue of section 6) or to lapse after a specified period or in specified cases, or to be subject to renewal as and when provided by the rules.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 7(b) substituted (3.12.2007) by European Qualifications (Health and Social Care Professions) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/3101), regs. 1(2), 249(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 7(c) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The European Qualifications (Health and Social Care Professions) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/593), reg. 1(2), Sch. 10 para. 6 (with reg. 12A, Sch. 10 Pt. 2) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1394, regs. 4, 18); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2001/3/section/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:21:53.445230+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."
}