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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nurses-midwives-and-health-visitors-periodic-registration-amendment-rules-approval-order-1995/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1995/967",
  "legislation_title": "The Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors (Periodic Registration) Amendment Rules Approval Order 1995",
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  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "NURSES, MIDWIVES AND HEALTH VISITORS\nMade 30th March 1995\nComing into force 1st April 1995\nIn exercise of the powers conferred upon me by section 22(4) of the Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors Act 1979 and having satisfied myself that the Rules made by the United Kingdom Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting as set out in the Schedule to this Order, insofar as they relate to midwifery practice, are framed in accordance with the recommendations of the Midwifery Committee of the Council, I hereby approve those Rules.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1979 c. 36."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "see Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors Act 1979, section 4(4)."
    }
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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."
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