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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registered-health-care-profession-designation-no-2-order-2003/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2003/2462",
  "legislation_title": "The Registered Health Care Profession (Designation No. 2) Order 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registered-health-care-profession-designation-no-2-order-2003",
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  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The profession of paramedics, being a profession mentioned in section 60(2) of the Health Act 1999, by virtue of being regulated by the Health Professions Order 2001 is hereby designated as a health care profession for the purposes of—\n(a) the definition of “registered health care professional” in section 11(2) of the Road Traffic Act 1988 and section 38(2A) of the Transport and Works Act 1992; and\n(b) the definition of “health care professional” in section 31(9A) of the Transport and Works Act 1992.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1999 c. 8; section 60(2) is amended by the Health Professions Order 2001 (S.I. 2002/254)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2002/254."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Health care profession is defined in section 11(2) of the Road Traffic Act 1988 and sections 31(9A) and 38(2A) of the Transport and Works Act 1992 as any profession mentioned in section 60(2) of the Health Act 1999 other than the profession of practising medicine and the profession of nursing."
    }
  ],
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      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2012/1479",
      "affecting_title": "The Health and Social Care Act 2012 (Consequential Provision—Social Workers) Order 2012"
    },
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      "affecting": "uksi/2019/1094",
      "affecting_title": "The Children and Social Work Act 2017 (Consequential Amendments) (Social Workers) Regulations 2019"
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/2462/article/2",
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  },
  "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."
}