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  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Fund-holding Practices) Regulations 1996",
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  "text": "Where the members of a fund-holding practice employ a person or purchase any services, they first satisfy themselves that the employee has such qualifications, training and experience as is necessary for that employment or, as the case may be, that the provider of the services is suitably competent to provide those services.",
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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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