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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medical-act-1983-amendment-order-2002-transitory-provisions-order-of-council-2003/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2003/1340",
  "legislation_title": "The Medical Act 1983 (Amendment) Order 2002 (Transitory Provisions) Order of Council 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medical-act-1983-amendment-order-2002-transitory-provisions-order-of-council-2003",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order makes transitory changes arising out of the implementation of the Medical Act 1983 (Amendment) Order 2002 (“the principal Order”).\nOn the coming into force of article 4(2) of the principal Order, the total number of members of the General Medical Council (“GMC”) is reduced to no more than 35 members. Articles 2 to 4 of this Order remove the requirements in Rules made by the GMC that the initial consideration of fitness to practise cases needs to be done by members of the GMC. They also include provisions allowing for the appointment by the GMC of the screeners and advisers who are now to undertake the initial consideration of fitness to practise cases.",
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  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/1340/note",
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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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