{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medical-professional-performance-act-1995/section-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medical-professional-performance-act-1995/section-7.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1995/51",
  "legislation_title": "Medical (Professional Performance) Act 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medical-professional-performance-act-1995",
  "path": "section/7",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Short title and extent.",
  "text": "(1) This Act may be cited as the Medical (Professional Performance) Act 1995.\n(2) This Act extends to Northern Ireland.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S.7 wholly in force at 18.5.2000; s.7 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 6; s.7(1) wholly in force and s. 7(2) in force for certain purposes at 1.5.1996 by S.I. 1996/271, art. 2, Sch.; s. 7(2) in force for certain purposes at 1.9.1996 and 1.1.1997 by S.I. 1996/1631, arts. 2(1)(a)(2)(a)(3)(a); s. 7 in force at 1.7.1997 insofar as not already in force, except so far as it relates to s. 2 and Sch. para. 3, by S.I. 1997/1315, art. 2; s. 7 in force at 18.5.2000 insofar as not already in force by S.I. 2000/1344, art. 2"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1995/51/section/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:32:34.171825+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."
}