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  "legislation": "ukpga/2008/14",
  "legislation_title": "Health and Social Care Act 2008",
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  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Regulation of healthcare professions",
  "text": "Title and reference\nExtent of repeal or revocation\nHearing Aid Council Act 1968 (c. 50)\nThe whole Act.\nHearing Aid Council (Extension) Act 1975 (c. 39)\nThe whole Act.\nSupreme Court Act 1981 (c. 54)\nIn Schedule 5, the entry for the Hearing Aid Council Act 1968.\nMedical Act 1983 (c. 54)\nIn section 1(3), paragraphs (b) and (f).\nSection 38(3)(a)(ii).\nIn section 41—\n(a)in subsection (7), the words “in accordance with regulations made by the General Council under this subsection,”, and\n(b)subsection (8).\nIn section 41A(4), the words from “; and for the purposes” to the end.\nSection 53(2)(c).\nIn Part 3 of Schedule 1—\n(a)paragraphs 19A and 19E and the headings before those paragraphs, and\n(b)paragraph 23(b).\nIn Schedule 4—\n(a)in the heading before paragraph 1, the words “, Interim Orders Panels and Fitness to Practise Panels”,\n(b)in paragraph 1(1), the words “, Interim Orders Panels and Fitness to Practise Panels”,\n(c)in paragraph 1(1)(a), the words “, an Interim Orders Panel or a Fitness to Practise Panel”,\n(d)in paragraph 1(1)(b), the words “or such a Panel”,\n(e)paragraph 1(3) and (4),\n(f)in paragraph 2(1), paragraphs (b) and (c) and the words “or Panel”,\n(g)in paragraph 2(2), the words “, an Interim Orders Panel or a Fitness to Practise Panel”,\n(h)in paragraph 2(3), the words “, an Interim Orders Panel or a Fitness to Practise Panel” and the words “or Panel” (in both places),\n(i)in paragraph 3(a), the words “, an Interim Orders Panel or a Fitness to Practise Panel” and the words “, a Panel”,\n(j)in paragraph 3(b), the words “to a Fitness to Practise Panel or” and the words “the Panel or”,\n(k)paragraph 5A(1)(a)(ii), (3) and (3A),\n(l)paragraph 7(1)(b) and (c),\n(m)in paragraph 7(4), the words “, an Interim Orders Panel or a Fitness to Practise Panel”,\n(n)in paragraph 7(4)(a), the words “or a Panel”,\n(o)in paragraph 7(4)(a)(ii) and (b), the words “or the Panel”, and\n(p)in paragraph 13, the words “, an Interim Orders Panel or Fitness to Practise Panel”.\nHearing Aid Council (Amendment) Act 1989 (c. 12)\nThe whole Act.\nOpticians Act 1989 (c. 44)\nSection 5C.\nIn section 5D(1), the words “the Fitness to Practise Committee and”.\nIn section 13L(11), the words “and rules made under section 23C below”.\nIn section 23B—\n(a)in the heading, the words “Fitness to Practise Committee and”, and\n(b)subsection (1)(a) and the word “or” following it.\nIn section 23C—\n(a)subsection (1)(a)(i) and the word “and” following it, and\n(b)subsection (2)(e) and (f).\nSection 23D(2)(a) and the word “and” following it.\nIn section 23E(3) and (4), the words “the Fitness to Practise Committee and”.\nCourts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c. 41)\nIn Schedule 10, paragraph 29.\nValue Added Tax Act 1994 (c. 23)\nIn Part 2 of Schedule 9, in Item 1 of Group 7, paragraph (e).\nHealth Act 1999 (c. 8)\nIn section 60(2)(a), the words “the Pharmacy Act 1954,”.\nIn Schedule 3—\n(a)paragraph 7(2) and (3),\n(b)in paragraph 10, the words from “and other expressions” to the end, and\n(c)paragraph 12.\nFreedom of Information Act 2000 (c. 36)\nIn Part 6 of Schedule 1, the entry for the Hearing Aid Council.\nNational Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002 (c. 17)\nIn section 25(6), the words “and (3)”.\nSection 26(7) and (8).\nIn section 29(1)—\n(a)paragraph (c),\n(b)in paragraph (e), the words from “(other than a determination” to the end, and\n(c)paragraph (f).\nIn Schedule 7, paragraphs 20 to 24.\nIncome Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003 (c. 1)\nIn section 343, in paragraph 1 of the Table at the end of subsection (2), sub-paragraph (g).\nConstitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4)\nIn Schedule 7, in paragraph 4, in part A, the entry for the Hearing Aid Council Act 1968 (c. 50).\nIn Part 3 of Schedule 11, in paragraph 6(3), the entry for the Hearing Aid Council (Extension) Act 1975 (c. 39).\nHealth Act 2006 (c. 28)\nIn Schedule 5, the entry relating to the Council for the Regulation of Health Care Professionals.",
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  "status": null,
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      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 15 Pt. 2 in force at 1.1.2009 for specified purposes by S.I. 2008/3244, art. 2(j)"
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      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 15 Pt. 2 in force at 1.4.2010 for specified purposes by S.I. 2010/708, art. 4(1)(c)"
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    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I3",
      "text": "Sch. 15 Pt. 2 in force at 1.8.2010 for specified purposes by S.I. 2010/708, art. 4(2)(d)"
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