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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nurses-midwives-and-health-visitors-supervisors-of-midwives-amendment-rules-approval-order-1997/schedule/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nurses-midwives-and-health-visitors-supervisors-of-midwives-amendment-rules-approval-order-1997/schedule/paragraph-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/1723",
  "legislation_title": "The Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors (Supervisors of Midwives) Amendment Rules Approval Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nurses-midwives-and-health-visitors-supervisors-of-midwives-amendment-rules-approval-order-1997",
  "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 (Supervisors of Midwives) Rules 1997.\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. Part V and Schedules 1 to 12 of the Principal Rules (concerning midwives) were substituted by the Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors (Midwives Amendment) Rules (approved by S.I. 1986/786). These Rules have been amended by 1990/1624, 1993/1901, 1993/2106 and 1995/967."
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/1723/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."
}