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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/belfast-health-and-social-services-trust-establishment-order-northern-ireland-2006/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/belfast-health-and-social-services-trust-establishment-order-northern-ireland-2006/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2006/292",
  "legislation_title": "The Belfast Health and Social Services Trust (Establishment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/belfast-health-and-social-services-trust-establishment-order-northern-ireland-2006",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Nature and functions of the trust",
  "text": "(1) The trust is established for the purposes specified in Article 10(1) of the Order.\n(2) The trust’s functions shall be—\n(a) to provide goods and services for the purposes of the health and personal social services; and\n(b) to exercise social care and children’s functions [within the meaning of Article 10A of the Order].",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 3(2) substituted (24.11.2008) by The Health and Social Services Trusts (Establishment) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2008 (S.R. 2008/426), arts. 1(1), 2(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Art. 3(2)(b) substituted (1.4.2022) by The Health and Social Care Trusts (Establishment) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2022 (S.R. 2022/103), arts. 1(1), 2(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 3 in operation at 1.8.2006, see art. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2006/292/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:46:00.503770+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."
}