{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-professions-order-2001/schedule-3/paragraph-1A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-professions-order-2001/schedule-3/paragraph-1A.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2002/254",
  "legislation_title": "Health Professions Order 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-professions-order-2001",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/1A",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1A",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of this Order, a person (“P”) performs the functions of a dispenser of hearing aids if P—\n(a) assesses or tests an individual’s hearing; or\n(b) prescribes a hearing aid for an individual,\nwith a view to the sale, whether by P or another, of a hearing aid to, or for the use of, that individual and “hearing aid dispenser” shall be construed accordingly.\n(2) In sub-paragraph (1)—\n“hearing aid” means an electronic device, designed to be placed outside or within the ear, which processes and amplifies sounds using electro-acoustic or electro-magnetic systems in order to compensate for hearing loss;\n“sale” means supply by way of retail sale or by way of hire but does not include a sale to a person acquiring for the purposes of trade.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 3 para. 1A inserted (1.4.2010) by The Health Professions (Hearing Aid Dispensers) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/233), arts. 1(3), 7(5)(b) (with arts. 4-6)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/254/schedule/3/paragraph/1A",
    "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."
}