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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nursing-and-midwifery-order-2001/schedule-2/paragraph-21",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nursing-and-midwifery-order-2001/schedule-2/paragraph-21.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/21",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "Transfer of staff and property",
  "text": "(1) The Privy Council may by order provide for the transfer from the old to the new employer of any—\n(a) eligible employee; and\n(b) property, rights and liabilities.\n(2) In this paragraph and in paragraph 25—\n(a) “the new employer” means, in relation to—\n(i) England, the Secretary of State,\n(ii) Wales, the National Assembly for Wales,\n(iii) Scotland, the Scottish Ministers, and\n(iv) Northern Ireland, the Northern Ireland Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety,\nor any person or body established or authorised by any of them; and\n(b) “the old employer” means a National Board.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 21 in force at 22.3.2002 for specified purposes as notified in the London Gazette (Issue 56510, published 15.3.2002), see art. 1(2)(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 21 in force at 1.4.2002 in so far as not already in force as notified in the London Gazette (Issue 56517, published 25.3.2002), see art. 1(2)(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/253/schedule/2/paragraph/21",
    "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."
}