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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/care-homes-amendment-regulations-2003/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2003/534",
  "legislation_title": "The Care Homes (Amendment) Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/care-homes-amendment-regulations-2003",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "SOCIAL CARE, ENGLAND\nMade 6th March 2003\nLaid before Parliament 7th March 2003\nComing into force 1st April 2003\nThe Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 22(1) and (2)(b) and 118(5) to (7) of the Care Standards Act 2000, and all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2000 c. 14. The powers are exercisable by the appropriate Minister, who is defined in section 121(1), in relation to England, Scotland or Northern Ireland as the Secretary of State. See section 121(1) for the definitions of “prescribed” and “regulations”."
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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."
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