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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-medical-and-pharmaceutical-services-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1996/136",
  "legislation_title": "General Medical and Pharmaceutical Services (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-medical-and-pharmaceutical-services-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1996",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "HEALTH AND PERSONAL SOCIAL SERVICES\nMade 29th March 1996\nComing into operation 1st April 1996\nThe Department of Health and Social Services, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Articles 56, 63, 106, and 107(6) of, and paragraph 8E of Schedule 11 to, the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1972, and Article 10 of the Health and Medicines (Northern Ireland) Order 1988 and of all other powers enabling it in that behalf, and in conjunction with the Department of Finance and Personnel and after consultation with such organisations as appeared to the Department to be representative of the Medical and Pharmaceutical professions, as required by Articles 56(5) and 63(3) of that Order, hereby makes the following regulations:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1972/1265 (N.I. 14), as amended by S.I. 1978/1907 (N.I. 26), S.I. 1981/432, S.I. 1984/1158 (N.I. 8), S.I. 1986/2023 (N.I. 20), S.I. 1986/2229 (N.I. 24), S.I. 1991/194 (N.I. 1), and S.I. 1995/2704 (N.I. 14)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1988/2249 (N.I. 24)"
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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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