{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nursing-and-midwifery-order-2001/article-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nursing-and-midwifery-order-2001/article-8.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/8",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Access to register etc.",
  "text": "(1) The Council shall make the register available for inspection by members of the public at all reasonable times.\n(2) The Council shall publish the register maintained by it in such manner, and at such times, as it considers appropriate.\n(3) Any copy of, or extract from, the published register shall be evidence (and in Scotland sufficient evidence) of the matters mentioned in it.\n(4) A certificate purporting to be signed by the Registrar, certifying that a person—\n(a) is registered in a specified category;\n(b) is not registered;\n(c) was registered in a specified category at a specified date or during a specified period;\n(d) was not registered in a specified category, or in any category, at a specified date or during a specified period; or\n(e) has never been registered,\nshall be evidence (and in Scotland sufficient evidence) of the matters certified.\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 8(5) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The European Qualifications (Health and Social Care Professions) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/593), reg. 1(2), Sch. 4 para. 6 (with reg. 12A, Sch. 4 Pt. 2) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1394, regs. 4, 12(3)-(10)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 8 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/8",
    "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."
}