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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-sick-pay-medical-evidence-regulations-1985/schedule-1/paragraph-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1985/1604",
  "legislation_title": "The Statutory Sick Pay (Medical Evidence) Regulations 1985",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-sick-pay-medical-evidence-regulations-1985",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires—\n“assessment” means either a consultation between a patient and a healthcare professional which takes place in person or by telephone or a consideration by a healthcare professional of a written report by another healthcare professional or other health ...professional;\n“condition” means a specific disease or bodily or mental disability;\n...\n“other health professional” means a person (other than a healthcare professional and not being the patient) who is..., a registered midwife, ... or a member of any profession regulated by a body mentioned in section 25(3) of the National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002;\n“patient” means the person in respect of whom a statement is given in accordance with these rules.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 substituted (6.4.2010) by The Social Security (Medical Evidence) and Statutory Sick Pay (Medical Evidence) (Amendment) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/137), regs. 1(2), 3(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 rule 1 substituted (1.7.2022) by The Social Security (Medical Evidence) and Statutory Sick Pay (Medical Evidence) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/630), regs. 1(2), 3(4)(a)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 1 rule 1 omitted (1.7.2022) by virtue of The Social Security (Medical Evidence) and Statutory Sick Pay (Medical Evidence) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/630), regs. 1(2), 3(4)(a)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 rule 1 omitted (1.7.2022) by virtue of The Social Security (Medical Evidence) and Statutory Sick Pay (Medical Evidence) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/630), regs. 1(2), 3(4)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 rule 1 substituted (1.7.2022) by The Social Security (Medical Evidence) and Statutory Sick Pay (Medical Evidence) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/630), regs. 1(2), 3(4)(c)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 rule 1 substituted (1.7.2022) by The Social Security (Medical Evidence) and Statutory Sick Pay (Medical Evidence) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/630), regs. 1(2), 3(4)(c)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 rule 1 omitted (1.7.2022) by virtue of The Social Security (Medical Evidence) and Statutory Sick Pay (Medical Evidence) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/630), regs. 1(2), 3(4)(c)(iii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 rule 1 omitted (1.7.2022) by virtue of The Social Security (Medical Evidence) and Statutory Sick Pay (Medical Evidence) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/630), regs. 1(2), 3(4)(c)(iv)"
    }
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T17:01:11.940000+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."
}