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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nurses-midwives-and-health-visitors-midwives-amendment-rules-approval-order-1998/schedule/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nurses-midwives-and-health-visitors-midwives-amendment-rules-approval-order-1998/schedule/paragraph-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/2649",
  "legislation_title": "The Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors (Midwives Amendment) Rules Approval Order 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nurses-midwives-and-health-visitors-midwives-amendment-rules-approval-order-1998",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation and Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These rules may be cited as the Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors (Midwives Amendment) Rules 1998.\n(2) In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires, “the principal rules” means the Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors Rules 1983.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Approved by S.I. 1983/873, the relevant amending instruments being S.I. 1986/786, 1989/1456, 1990/1624, 1993/1901 and 1993/2106."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/2649/schedule/paragraph/1",
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  "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."
}