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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-professions-order-2001/schedule-2/paragraph-27",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-professions-order-2001/schedule-2/paragraph-27.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2002/254",
  "legislation_title": "Health Professions Order 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-professions-order-2001",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/27",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "27",
  "heading": "Provisions on ODPs - fitness to practise",
  "text": "If on the day before paragraph 25 comes into force a person’s name is included in the AODP register but his registration is suspended (whether temporarily or permanently) or he is the subject of proceedings which, but for the closure of the AODP register, could have led to his removal or suspension from the AODP register, the Council—\n(a) may determine that his name is not to be entered in the register; and\n(b) shall dispose of the matter (including any proceedings) in such manner as it considers just.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 paras. 25-27 added (18.10.2004 as notified in the London Gazette dated 1.10.2004) by The Health Professions (Operating Department Practitioners and Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/2033), arts. 1(2), 3(3)(f)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 27 in force at 18.10.2004 as notified in the London Gazette dated 4.10.2004, see art. 1(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/254/schedule/2/paragraph/27",
    "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."
}