{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sex-discrimination-midwives-specified-date-order-1983/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sex-discrimination-midwives-specified-date-order-1983/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1983/1841",
  "legislation_title": "Sex Discrimination (Midwives) (Specified Date) Order 1983",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sex-discrimination-midwives-specified-date-order-1983",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "SEX DISCRIMINATION NURSES, MIDWIVES AND HEALTH VISITORS\nLaid before Parliament in draft\nMade 12th December 1983\nComing into Operation 1st January 1984\nWhereas a draft of this Order has been laid before Parliament for forty days (computed in accordance with section 7(1) of the Statutory Instruments Act 1946) and neither House of Parliament has resolved that the Order be not made:\nNow, therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by paragraph 3 of Schedule 4 to the Sex Discrimination Act 1975, and of all other powers enabling me in that behalf, I hereby make the following order:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "paragraph 3(1) of Schedule 4 has been amended by the Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors Act 1979 (c.36), Schedule 7, paragraph 26."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1983/1841/introduction",
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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."
}