{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/permitted-persons-designation-order-2006/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2006/679",
  "legislation_title": "The Permitted Persons (Designation) Order 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/permitted-persons-designation-order-2006",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Permitted persons designated",
  "text": "The following are designated as permitted persons for the purposes of section 107 of the Constitutional Reform Act—\n(1) the General Council of the Bar;\n(2) the Faculty of Advocates;\n(3) the Honourable Society of the Inn of Court of Northern Ireland;\n(4) the Law Society of England and Wales;\n(5) the Law Society of Scotland;\n(6) the Law Society of Northern Ireland;\n(7) the Chief Medical Officer for England;\n(8) the General Medical Council;\n(9) the General Dental Council;\n(10) the General Optical Council;\n(11) the Nursing and Midwifery Council;\n(12) the General Social Care Council;\n(13) the Care Council for Wales;\n(14) the Scottish Social Services Council;\n(15) the Chief Medical Officer for Wales;\n(16) the Royal College of Anaesthetists;\n(17) the Royal College of General Practitioners;\n(18) the Royal College of Nursing;\n(19) the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists;\n(20) the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health;\n(21) the Royal College of Pathologists;\n(22) the Royal College of Physicians;\n(23) the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow;\n(24) the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh;\n(25) the Royal College of Psychiatrists;\n(26) the Royal College of Radiologists;\n(27) the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh;\n(28) the Royal College of Surgeons of England;\n(29) the Society of Apothecaries of London;\n(30) the Financial Services Authority;\n(31) the Association of Chartered and Certified Accountants;\n(32) the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy;\n(33) the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants;\n(34) the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales;\n(35) the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Scotland;\n(36) the Architects Registration Board;\n(37) the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors;\n(38) the Institute of Civil Engineers;\n(39) the Institute of Mechanical Engineers;\n(40) the Institute of Structural Engineers;\n(41) the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators;\n(42) the Chartered Institute of Patent Agents;\n(43) the Council for Licensed Conveyancers;\n(44) the Institute of Legal Executives;\n(45) the Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2012/1479",
      "affecting_title": "The Health and Social Care Act 2012 (Consequential Provision—Social Workers) Order 2012"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted for art. 2(30)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2013/472",
      "affecting_title": "The Financial Services Act 2012 (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Order 2013"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2019/1094",
      "affecting_title": "The Children and Social Work Act 2017 (Consequential Amendments) (Social Workers) Regulations 2019"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/679/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:34:32.247218+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."
}