{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nurses-midwives-and-health-visitors-act-1992-repealed-1961997/section-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nurses-midwives-and-health-visitors-act-1992-repealed-1961997/section-17.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1992/16",
  "legislation_title": "Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors Act 1992 (repealed 19.6.1997)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nurses-midwives-and-health-visitors-act-1992-repealed-1961997",
  "path": "section/17",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Short title etc.",
  "text": "(1) This Act may be cited as the Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors Act 1992.\n(2) In this Act “the 1979 Act” has the meaning given by section 1(1) above.\n(3) This Act, except sections 2 and 15, shall come into force on such day as the Secretary of State may by order made by statutory instrument appoint; and different days may be appointed in pursuance of this subsection for different provisions or different purposes of the same provision.\n(4) This Act extends to Northern Ireland.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 17 partly in force; s. 17 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 17(3); s. 17(1)-(3) wholly in force and s. 17(4) partly in force at 1.4.1993 by S.I. 1993/588, art. 2."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1992/16/section/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:36:03.669463+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."
}