{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ashworth-hospital-authority-abolition-order-2002/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ashworth-hospital-authority-abolition-order-2002/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2002/559",
  "legislation_title": "The Ashworth Hospital Authority (Abolition) Order 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ashworth-hospital-authority-abolition-order-2002",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement, interpretation and extent",
  "text": "(1) This order may be cited as the Ashworth Hospital Authority (Abolition) Order 2002 and shall come into force on 1st April 2002.\n(2) In this Order—\n“the Act” means the National Health Service Act 1977;\n“the Authority” means the Ashworth Hospital Authority established by the Authorities for the Ashworth, Broadmoor and Rampton Hospitals (Establishment and Constitution) Order 1996;\n“the Trust” means the Mersey Care National Health Service Trust.\n(3) This Order extends to England and Wales.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See S.I. 1996/488."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Established by S.I. 2001/1888."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "The powers under which this Order are made are by their nature exercisable concurrently with the Secretary of State by virtue of article 2(c) of the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 S.I. 1999/672."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/559/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:12:41.352746+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."
}