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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-durham-health-authority-change-of-name-order-2000/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2000/1241",
  "legislation_title": "The County Durham Health Authority (Change of Name) Order 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-durham-health-authority-change-of-name-order-2000",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND\nMade 8th May 2000\nLaid before Parliament 9th May 2000\nComing into force 1st June 2000\nThe Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 8(4) and 126(3) and (4) of the National Health Service Act 1977 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1977 c. 49; section 8 was substituted by the Health Authorities Act 1995 (c. 17) (“the 1995 Act”), section 1(1) and amended by the Health Act 1999 (c. 8) (“the 1999 Act”), Schedule 4, paragraph 5; section 126(3) and (4) was amended by the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19), section 65(2), by the 1995 Act, Schedule 1, paragraph 57, by the National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997 (c. 46), Schedule 2, paragraph 27 and by the 1999 Act, Schedule 4, paragraph 37. The functions of the Secretary of State under these provisions are, so far as exercisable in relation to Wales, transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by article 2(a) of, and the entry for the National Health Service Act 1977 in Schedule 1 to, the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999, S.I. 1999/672, as amended by section 66(5) of the 1999 Act."
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/1241/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."
}