{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-act-1999-commencement-no-17-order-2017/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2017/810",
  "legislation_title": "The Health Act 1999 (Commencement No. 17) Order 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-act-1999-commencement-no-17-order-2017",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "National Health Service, England And Wales\nNational Health Service, Scotland\nHealth And Personal Social Services, Northern Ireland\nMade 31st July 2017\nThe Secretary of State makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 67(1) and (2) of the Health Act 1999.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1999 c.8. Sections 26 to 39 of the Health Act 1999 were repealed by section 6 of, and Schedule 4 to, the National Health Service (Consequential Provisions) Act 2006 (c.43) to the extent that they were brought into force before the coming into force of that Act. The provisions of the Health Act 1999 which are being commenced by article 2 of this Order are, by virtue of section 277(3) and (4) of the National Health Service Act 2006 (c.41), re-enacted as sections 261(8), 263, 265(10) and 266 of that Act and come into force immediately after that re-enactment."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/810/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:09:00.583003+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."
}