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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medical-practitioners-vocational-training-regulations-northern-ireland-1998/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medical-practitioners-vocational-training-regulations-northern-ireland-1998/regulation-8.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1998/13",
  "legislation_title": "Medical Practitioners (Vocational Training) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998",
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  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Approval of training posts",
  "text": "(1) A post falls within this regulation for the purposes of regulation 6(4) if it is—\n(a) a post which is, on 30th September immediately before the start of employment in that post, approved by the Joint Committee in accordance with paragraph (2);\n(b) a post which is an educationally approved post for the purpose of acquiring prescribed experience under regulations made under section 32 of the National Health Service Act 1977; or\n(c) a post which is an educationally approved post for the purpose of acquiring prescribed experience under regulations made under section 22 of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978.\n(2) The Joint Committee may approve a post for the purposes of paragraph (1) if—\n(a) it is approved by the Specialist Training Authority of the Medical Royal Colleges (“the STA”) pursuant to Article 7 of the European Specialist Medical Qualifications Order 1995; or\n(b) it is not so approved and the post is one for which there is no relevant Royal College or Faculty which is entitled to appoint a member of the STA pursuant to Article 3(3) and Part I of Schedule 1 to that Order.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 8 in operation at 30.1.1998, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1977 c. 49"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1978 c. 29"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1995/3208"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1998/13/regulation/8",
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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."
}