{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nurses-midwives-and-health-visitors-act-1979/schedule-6/paragraph-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nurses-midwives-and-health-visitors-act-1979/schedule-6/paragraph-3.json",
  "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/6/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In section 23(1)—\n(a) in the definition of “by order”, at the end add the words “or in the case of an order under section [5 or 6] made by the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland or an order under section 22(4) or paragraph 4 of Schedule 3 made by the Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland means by order made by statutory rule for the purposes of the Statutory Rules (Northern Ireland) Order 1979”;\n(b) in the definition of “prescribed” after the words “Secretary of State” insert the words “or, as the case may be, the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland”.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 6 para. 3(a) substituted (1. 4. 1993) by Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors Act 1992 (c. 16), s. 16(1), Sch. 2 para. 9(5); S.I. 1993/588, art.2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 6 para. 3(a): words substituted by S.I. 1979/1573 (N.I. 12), Sch. 4 para. 28"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "It is provided by S.I. 1979/1573 (N.I. 12), Sch. 4 para. 28, that in s. 23(1), as modified by s. 23(3) and Sch. 6 paras. 1 and 3(a), “Statutory Rules (Northern Ireland) Order 1979” is substituted for “Statutory Rules Act (Northern Ireland) 1958”"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1979/36/schedule/6/paragraph/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:17:16.298557+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}