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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/foresterhill-hospitals-national-health-service-trust-establishment-order-1991/article-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1991/2899",
  "legislation_title": "The Foresterhill Hospitals National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/foresterhill-hospitals-national-health-service-trust-establishment-order-1991",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Nature and functions of the trust",
  "text": "(1) The trust is established for the purpose specified in section 12A(1)(a) of the Act.\n(2) The trust’s functions (which include functions which the Secretary of State considers appropriate in relation to the provision of services by the trust for one or more health boards) shall be to manage the hospital establishments or facilities known as Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary (Woolmanhill), Royal Aberdeen Children’s Hospital, Aberdeen Maternity Hospital and the Hyperbaric Centre, all in Aberdeen and Tor-na-Dee Hospital and Roxburghe House, both at Milltimer, Aberdeen including the management of the teaching and research facilities associated with these establishments and the support services related thereto.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 12A was inserted by the 1990 Act, section 31."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/2899/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:31:56.429728+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."
}