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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-discipline-committees-scotland-amendment-regulations-2009/note",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2009/308",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Discipline Committees) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2009",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations make amendments to the National Health Service (Discipline Committees) (Scotland) Regulations 2006 (S.S.I. 2006/330) (the “2006 Regulations”).\nRegulation 2 amends paragraph 6(2) of Schedule 1 of the 2006 Regulations to provide that the limitation on the term of office of any member or deputy member of any discipline committee is increased from 1 year to 3.\nRegulation 2 also amends paragraph 1(1)(a) of Schedule 2 of the 2006 Regulations to provide that the period of time within which the health board must notify a practitioner of their referral to a discipline committee has been increased from 2 working days to 5 working days.\nRegulation 3 provides that the amendment to paragraph 1(1)(a) of Schedule 2 shall not affect the notification period that relates to a referral where the referral took place before the date of the commencement of these Regulations.",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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