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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-social-care-act-2012-consequential-provisionsocial-workers-order-2012/article-10",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2012/1479",
  "legislation_title": "The Health and Social Care Act 2012 (Consequential Provision—Social Workers) Order 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-social-care-act-2012-consequential-provisionsocial-workers-order-2012",
  "path": "article/10",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Health Professions Council (Practice Committees and Miscellaneous Amendments) Rules Order of Council 2009",
  "text": "In the Schedule to the Health Professions Council (Practice Committees and Miscellaneous Amendments) Rules Order of Council 2009 (the Health Professions Council (Practice Committees and Miscellaneous Amendments) Rules 2009), in rule 2 (interpretation)—\n(a) in paragraph (a) of the definition of “lay member”, omit “or” at the end of sub-paragraph (ii), and for “and” at the end of sub-paragraph (iii) substitute—\n“or\n(iv) registered as a social worker, or as a visiting social worker from a relevant European state, in a register maintained under section 56 of the Care Standards Act 2000 or in any equivalent register provided for under the law of Scotland or Northern Ireland; and,” and\n(b) in the definition of “the Order”, for “Health Professions Order 2001” substitute “Health and Social Work Professions Order 2001”.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 10 in force at 1.8.2012, see art. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2009/1355."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/1479/article/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:29:25.440825+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."
}