{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nursing-and-midwifery-order-2001/article-45",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nursing-and-midwifery-order-2001/article-45.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2002/253",
  "legislation_title": "The Nursing and Midwifery Order 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nursing-and-midwifery-order-2001",
  "path": "article/45",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "45",
  "heading": "Attendance by unqualified persons at childbirth",
  "text": "(1) A person other than a registered midwife or a registered medical practitioner shall not attend a woman in childbirth.\n(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply—\n(a) where the attention is given in a case of sudden or urgent necessity; or\n(b) in the case of a person who, while undergoing training with a view to becoming a medical practitioner or to becoming a midwife, attends a woman in childbirth as part of a course of practical instruction in midwifery recognised by the Council or by the General Medical Council.\n(3) A person who contravenes paragraph (1) shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 45 in force at 1.8.2004 as notified in the London Gazette (Issue 57361, published 21.7.2004), see art. 1(2)(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/253/article/45",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:15:34.256557+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."
}