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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-assistance-professions-supplementary-to-medicine-amendment-regulations-1968/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1968/271",
  "legislation_title": "The National Assistance (Professions Supplementary to Medicine) (Amendment) Regulations 1968",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-assistance-professions-supplementary-to-medicine-amendment-regulations-1968",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "These Regulations amend the National Assistance (Professions Supplementary to Medicine) Regulations 1964 so as to prohibit the employment of persons in the capacity of orthoptists for the purpose of providing services under Part III of the National Assistance Act 1948 unless they are registered with the Orthoptists Board under the Professions Supplementary to Medicine Act 1960 (c.66).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1968/271/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T23:26:36.052895+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."
}