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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-professions-order-2001/article-40",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-professions-order-2001/article-40.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2002/254",
  "legislation_title": "Health Professions Order 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-professions-order-2001",
  "path": "article/40",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "40",
  "heading": "Further provisions",
  "text": "(1) The Privy Council may make provision by order with regard to the functions of legal assessors and in particular provision may be made—\n(a) requiring legal assessors, when advising the Council or any of its committees, to do so in the presence of the parties or their representatives or, where advice is given in private, requiring the parties to be notified of the advice tendered by the legal assessors;\n(b) requiring the parties to be notified in any case where the legal assessor’s advice is not accepted.\n(2) Paragraph (1)(a) and (b) shall not apply to advice given by a legal assessor in respect of the drafting of a decision mentioned in article 34(3).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 40 not in force at made date, see art. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Art. 40(1) in force at 14.3.2003 for specified purposes as notified in the London Gazette dated 7.3.2003, see art. 1(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I3",
      "text": "Art. 40(1) in force at 9.7.2003 in so far as not already in force as notified in the London Gazette dated 27.6.2003, see art. 1(3) (with transitional provisions in S.I. 2003/1700)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/254/article/40",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:15:32.685476+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."
}