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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medical-act-1983-amendment-order-2002-saving-provision-order-of-council-2004/article-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2004/1731",
  "legislation_title": "The Medical Act 1983 (Amendment) Order 2002 (Saving Provision) Order of Council 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medical-act-1983-amendment-order-2002-saving-provision-order-of-council-2004",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Medical Act 1983 (Amendment) Order 2002 (Saving Provision) Order of Council 2004 and shall come into force on 7th July 2004.\n(2) In this Order—\n(a) “the Act” means the Medical Act 1983; and\n(b) “the Principal Order” means the Medical Act 1983 (Amendment) Order 2002.\n(3) In this Order any reference to an old paragraph in the Act shall be construed as a reference to that paragraph as it had effect immediately prior to its substitution by the Principal Order and a reference to a new paragraph of the Act shall be construed as a reference to that paragraph as substituted by the Principal Order.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1983 c. 54 as amended by the Medical (Professional Performance) Act 1985 (c. 51), the National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997 (c. 46), the National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002 (c. 17), and the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 (c. 43) and S.I. 1986/23, 1996/1591, 2000/1803, 2000/3041 and 2002/3135."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/1731/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:23:11.613894+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."
}