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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-professions-order-2001-consequential-amendments-order-2003/schedule/paragraph-27",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-professions-order-2001-consequential-amendments-order-2003/schedule/paragraph-27.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2003/1590",
  "legislation_title": "The Health Professions Order 2001 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-professions-order-2001-consequential-amendments-order-2003",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/27",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "27",
  "heading": "National Health Service (Professions Supplementary to Medicine) Regulations 1974",
  "text": "(1) The National Health Service (Professions Supplementary to Medicine) Regulations 1974 are amended in accordance with this paragraph.\n(2) In regulation 2 (interpretation), for paragraph (2) substitute—\n“(2) For the purposes of these Regulations a person is registered in respect of a profession if he is registered in the register maintained under article 5 of the Health Professions Order 2001 in the part of the register which relates to that profession.”.\n(3) In regulation 3 (employment of officers), after paragraph (1A) insert—\n“(1B) No person shall be employed as an officer of an authority to which this regulation applies, in the capacity of clinical scientist or paramedic unless—\n(a) he is registered in respect of that profession; or\n(b) he is a person who has never been registered as a clinical scientist or paramedic, but who immediately before 9th July 2003 was employed in that capacity by an authority to which this regulation applies.\n(1C) No person shall be employed as an officer of an authority to which this regulation applies, in the capacity of speech and language therapist unless—\n(a) he is registered in respect of that profession; or\n(b) he is a person who satisfies one of the conditions set out in regulation 3 of the National Health Service (Speech Therapists) Regulations 1974 (employment of officers).”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1974/494. The relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1978/1090 and 2000/523 and 880."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2002/254."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1974/495. The relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1985/47 and 2002/2469."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "repealed by 2010 c. 15 Sch. 27 Pt. 3 (as inserted)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2011/1060",
      "affecting_title": "The Equality Act 2010 (Public Authorities and Consequential and Supplementary Amendments) Order 2011"
    },
    {
      "type": "omitted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2026/20",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (Functions of the Common Services Agency) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Order 2026"
    },
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2006/43",
      "affecting_title": "National Health Service (Consequential Provisions) Act 2006"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/1590/schedule/paragraph/27",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:21:36.671117+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."
}