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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/authorities-for-the-ashworth-broadmoor-and-rampton-hospitals-establishment-and-constitution-order-1996/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/488",
  "legislation_title": "The Authorities for the Ashworth, Broadmoor and Rampton Hospitals (Establishment and Constitution) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/authorities-for-the-ashworth-broadmoor-and-rampton-hospitals-establishment-and-constitution-order-1996",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order provides for the establishment, constitution and remuneration of members of three Special Health Authorities to be known as the Ashworth Hospital Authority, the Broadmoor Hospital Authority and the Rampton Hospital Authority. The Authorities have been established for the purposes of managing Ashworth, Broadmoor and Rampton Special Hospitals respectively and for the purposes of providing such mental health and other services as the Secretary of State may direct them to perform on his behalf.\nArticle 2 establishes the Authorities and the functions they may each be directed to perform are described in article 3 and the Schedule. The constitution of each of the Authorities is provided for in article 4 and article 5 provides for the remuneration of members of the Authorities who are not also officers.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/488/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:51:08.039094+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."
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