{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nurses-midwives-and-health-visitors-act-1979/section-22A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nurses-midwives-and-health-visitors-act-1979/section-22A.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": "section/22A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "22A",
  "heading": "Community documents.",
  "text": "A registered nurse or midwife who—\n(a) wishes to practice as a nurse or midwife in any EEA State, and\n(b) requires for that purpose any such documentary evidence relating to his qualification as is referred to in the Nursing Directive or, as the case may be, the Midwifery Directive\nmay apply to the Council for, and the Council shall provide, the necessary documents.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 22A, 22B inserted by S.I. 1983/884, art. 6"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 22A(a) substituted (31.12.1996) by S.I. 1996/3101, reg. 4(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1979/36/section/22A",
    "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."
}