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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nursing-and-midwifery-order-2001/schedule-2/paragraph-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nursing-and-midwifery-order-2001/schedule-2/paragraph-16.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2002/253",
  "legislation_title": "The Nursing and Midwifery Order 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nursing-and-midwifery-order-2001",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/16",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Fitness to practise proceedings",
  "text": "(1) Until relevant rules under Part V come into force—\n(a) where disciplinary proceedings—\n(i) are pending before the UKCC or any of its committees; or\n(ii) have begun but the body or committee dealing with the case has not communicated its decision to the person who is the subject of the proceedings,\nthat body or committee shall refer the proceedings to the Council and the Council shall dispose of the matter in accordance with the 1997 Act or, if the relevant provisions have been repealed, as if those provisions remained in force;\n(b) where an allegation is received by the Council it shall dispose of the matter as if the 1997 Act remained in force; and in both cases\n(c) references in the 1997 Act to the UKCC are to be treated as references to the Council.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 16 in force at 1.4.2002 as notified in the London Gazette (Issue 56517, published 25.3.2002), see art. 1(2)(3)"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/253/schedule/2/paragraph/16",
    "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."
}