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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nurses-midwives-and-health-visitors-act-1979/schedule-3/paragraph-3",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1979/36",
  "legislation_title": "Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors Act 1979",
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  "number": "3",
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  "text": "(1) The Central Council shall appoint assessors (either generally or for any particular proceedings or class of proceedings) to advise the Council or committees on questions of law arising in the proceedings.\n(2) Assessors shall be\n(a) persons who have a 10 year general qualification, within the meaning of section 71 of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990;\n(b) advocates or solicitors in Scotland of at least 10 years’ standing; or\n(c) members of the Bar of Northern Ireland or solicitors of the Supreme Court of Northern Ireland of at least 10 years’ standing.\n(3) The Council shall pay to assessors such remuneration as it may determine.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words substituted by Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c. 41, SIF 37), s. 71(2), Sch. 10 para. 43"
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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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