{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/commission-for-health-improvement-membership-and-procedure-regulations-1999/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/commission-for-health-improvement-membership-and-procedure-regulations-1999/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/2801",
  "legislation_title": "The Commission for Health Improvement (Membership and Procedure) Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/commission-for-health-improvement-membership-and-procedure-regulations-1999",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND\nNATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE,WALES\nMade 11th October 1999\nLaid before Parliament 11th October 1999\nComing into force 1st November 1999\nThe Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of powers conferred on him by paragraph 5 of Schedule 2 to the Health Act 1999 and section 126(4) of the National Health Service Act 1977, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, and after consultation with the National Assembly for Wales, hereby makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1999 c. 8."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1977 c. 49. Section 126(4) applies in relation to any power to make regulations conferred by the Health Act 1999 (c. 8) (“the 1999 Act”) (see section 62(4) of the 1999 Act). Section 126(4) was amended by section 65(2) of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19) (“the 1990 Act”) and paragraph 37(5) of Schedule 4 to the 1999 Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "The power conferred by paragraph 5 of Schedule 2 to the 1999 Act is exercisable by the Secretary of State only after consultation with the National Assembly for Wales, by virtue of article 5(1) of, and Schedule 2 to, the National Assembly of Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672), as amended by section 66(4) and (6) of the 1999 Act."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/2801/introduction",
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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."
}