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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medical-practitioners-vocational-training-regulations-northern-ireland-1998/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medical-practitioners-vocational-training-regulations-northern-ireland-1998/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1998/13",
  "legislation_title": "Medical Practitioners (Vocational Training) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medical-practitioners-vocational-training-regulations-northern-ireland-1998",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Power of direction",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), the Department may give directions to the Joint Committee in connection with—\n(a) their functions under these Regulations or the Vocational Training for General Medical Practice (European Requirements) Regulations 1994, in so far as those functions relate to the Community obligations contained in Title IV of the Medical Directive; and\n(b) any other functions of theirs which arise from Community obligations and which relate to specific training in general medical practice;\nand it shall be the duty of the Joint Committee to comply with any such directions.\n(2) Directions given under paragraph (1) may be as to matters of administration only.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 3 in operation at 30.1.1998, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1994/3130"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1998/13/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:25:38.372941+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."
}