{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/durham-county-priority-services-national-health-service-trust-establishment-order-1998/article-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1998/829",
  "legislation_title": "The Durham County Priority Services National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/durham-county-priority-services-national-health-service-trust-establishment-order-1998",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Durham County Priority Services National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 1998 and shall come into force on 1st April 1998.\n(2) In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires—\n“the Act” means the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990;\n“community health services” means any services which the Secretary of State may provide under section 3(1)(d) or (e) of or Schedule 1 to the National Health Service Act 1977 and any service which he has a duty to provide under section 5(1) or (1A) of that Act;\n“the trust” means the Durham County Priority Services National Health Service Trust established by article 2 of this Order.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1977 c. 49; section 5 was amended by and section 5(1A) inserted by the Health and Medicines Act 1988 (c. 49) section 10(1); Schedule 1 was amended by the Education Act 1980 (c. 20), Schedule 1, and the Health and Medicines Act 1988 (c. 49), Schedule 2, paragraph 7."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/60",
      "affecting_title": "The Durham County Priority Services National Health Service Trust (Change of Name) Order 1999"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/829/article/1",
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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."
}