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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nurses-midwives-and-health-visitors-midwives-amendment-rules-approval-order-1998/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1998/2649",
  "legislation_title": "The Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors (Midwives Amendment) Rules Approval Order 1998",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "NURSES, MIDWIVES AND HEALTH VISITORS\nMade 26th October 1998\nComing into force 1st December 1998\nIn exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 19(5) of the Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors Act 1997, having satisfied myself that the rules made by the United Kingdom Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting and set out in the Schedule hereto are framed in accordance with the recommendations of the Midwifery Committee of the Council, I hereby approve those rules.",
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      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1997 c. 24; see section 22(1) for the definition of “by order”."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See the Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors Act 1997, section 4(4)."
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  "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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