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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-amendment-regulations-2002/schedule/paragraph-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2002/561",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-amendment-regulations-2002",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/1",
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  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In regulation A2 (interpretation)—\n(a) for the definition of “practitioner” there is substituted—\n““practitioner” means—\n(a) a registered medical practitioner, other than a trainee practitioner, who is an assistant practitioner, an associate general practitioner, a locum practitioner (other than a person treated as an officer under regulation R11), a principal practitioner or a person who is treated as a practitioner under regulation R11 (participators in pilot schemes), or\n(b) a registered dentist, other than a person who is paid wholly by way of salary by a National Health Service Trust, a Primary Care Trust or a Health Authority or a person treated as an officer under regulation R11;”.\n(b) the following definitions are inserted in alphabetical order at the appropriate places—\n“assistant practitioner” has the meaning given in paragraph 1 of Schedule 2,\n“associate general practitioner” has the meaning given in paragraph 1 of Schedule 2,\n“locum practitioner” has the meaning given in paragraph 1 of Schedule 2,\n“principal practitioner” has the meaning given in paragraph 1 of Schedule 2,",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/561/schedule/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:12:35.750659+00:00"
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  "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."
}