{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-personal-social-services-northern-ireland-order-1972/article-51",
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  "legislation": "nisi/1972/1265",
  "legislation_title": "Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1972",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-personal-social-services-northern-ireland-order-1972",
  "path": "article/51",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "51",
  "heading": "Powers of Ministry where services are inadequate",
  "text": "If the Ministry is satisfied, after such investigation as it thinks fit, that any list prepared under this Order—\n(a) of medical practitioners undertaking to provide primary medical services; or\n(b) of dental practitioners undertaking to provide general dental services; or\n(c) of persons undertaking to provide general ophthalmic services; or\n(d) of persons undertaking to provide pharmaceutical services; or\n(e) of persons undertaking to provide any other services;\nis not such as to secure the adequate provision of the services in question, or that for any other reason any considerable number of persons are not receiving satisfactory services under the arrangements in force under this Order or the 2009 Act, the Ministry may ... make such other arrangements as appear to the Ministry to be necessary.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "2004 NI 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in art. 51 inserted (1.4.2009) by Health and Social Care (Reform) Act (Northern Ireland) 2009 (c. 1), s. 34(3), Sch. 6 para. 3(23); S.R. 2009/114, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in art. 51 omitted (1.4.2022) by virtue of Health and Social Care Act (Northern Ireland) 2022 (c. 3), s. 8(1)(b), Sch. 1 para. 17; S.R. 2022/102, art. 2(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1972/1265/article/51",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:54:41.031010+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."
}