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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/human-fertilisation-and-embryology-authority-licence-committees-and-appeals-regulations-1991/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1991/1889",
  "legislation_title": "The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (Licence Committees and Appeals) Regulations 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/human-fertilisation-and-embryology-authority-licence-committees-and-appeals-regulations-1991",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations prescribe the composition of licence committees of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority and the procedure to be adopted by those committees.\nThe Regulations also prescribe the procedure to be adopted by the Authority when hearing an appeal against a determination of a licence committee.\nThe Authority may regulate its own procedure in so far as it is not provided for in the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 or in these Regulations. Licence committees must discharge the functions given to them in accordance with any general directions of the Authority.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "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."
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