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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medical-profession-responsible-officers-amendment-regulations-2013/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2013/391",
  "legislation_title": "The Medical Profession (Responsible Officers) (Amendment) Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medical-profession-responsible-officers-amendment-regulations-2013",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment to Part 1 (General)",
  "text": "(1) Part 1 of the 2010 Regulations is amended as follows.\n(2) In regulation 1(2)—\n(a) for the definition “NHS body” substitute—\n““NHS body” means any of the bodies listed in paragraphs 1 to 6, 15 to 17 and 25C of the Schedule to these Regulations;”;\n(b) in the appropriate places insert—\n““the Board” means the National Health Service Commissioning Board;\n“sufficient number of responsible officers” means the number of responsible officers required to ensure that each responsible officer appointed under regulation 5(2) has the capacity to carryout their responsibilities in regulations 11 and 13.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The National Health Service Commissioning Board was established by section 1H of the National Health Service Act 2006 (c. 41) as inserted by section 9 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c. 7)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/391/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:03:27.599630+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."
}