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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nurses-midwives-and-health-visitors-act-1979/schedule-5/paragraph-7",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1979/36",
  "legislation_title": "Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors Act 1979",
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  "number": "7",
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  "text": "Where on the appointed day any disciplinary proceedings—\n(a) are pending before any of the replaced statutory bodies or before any committee of theirs; or\n(b) have begun but the body or committee seized of them has not communicated its decision to the person who is the subject of the proceedings,\nthat body or committee shall refer the proceedings to the Central Council and the Council shall dispose of the matter in whatever way it thinks just.",
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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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