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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registered-health-care-profession-designation-order-2003/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2003/2461",
  "legislation_title": "The Registered Health Care Profession (Designation) 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 the definition of “registered health care professional” in section 65(1) of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984.",
  "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 65(1A) of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 as any profession mentioned in section 60(2) of the Health Act 1999 (c. 8) 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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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/2461/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."
}