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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nurses-midwives-and-health-visitors-act-1979/schedule-5/paragraph-6",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1979/36",
  "legislation_title": "Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors Act 1979",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nurses-midwives-and-health-visitors-act-1979",
  "path": "schedule/5/paragraph/6",
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  "number": "6",
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  "text": "(1) Where a person formerly employed by any of the replaced statutory bodies claims to have a right of action against that body arising from his employment by them but is unable to pursue his claim because of the dissolution of the body, he may bring his claim—\n(a) if he is transferred to the employment of one or other of the new statutory bodies, against that body; or\n(b) in any other case, against the Central Council.\n(2) The body against whom a claim is brought by virtue of sub-paragraph (1) shall be liable in the same manner and to the same extent as the replaced statutory body would have been liable if it had not been dissolved.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1979/36/schedule/5/paragraph/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:17:16.298557+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."
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