{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-board-for-nursing-midwifery-and-health-visiting-for-scotland-order-1993/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-board-for-nursing-midwifery-and-health-visiting-for-scotland-order-1993/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1993/637",
  "legislation_title": "The National Board for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting for Scotland Order 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-board-for-nursing-midwifery-and-health-visiting-for-scotland-order-1993",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires—\n“the Act” means the Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors Act 1979;\n“the Board” means the National Board for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting for Scotland established by section 5(1) of the Act;\n“executive member” means a person referred to in article 4;\n“non-executive member” means the chairman or a member of the Board other than an executive member;\n“the professional register” means the register maintained under section 10(1) of the Act.\n(2) Unless the context otherwise requires, a reference in this Order to a numbered article is to the article bearing that number in this Order and a reference in an article to a numbered paragraph is to the paragraph bearing that number in that article.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/637/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:01:56.805464+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."
}