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  "legislation": "uksi/1999/2342",
  "legislation_title": "The Health Act 1999 (Commencement No. 2) Order 1999",
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  "path": "schedule/2",
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  "number": "2",
  "heading": "PROVISIONS OF THE ACT COMING INTO FORCE ON 4TH JANUARY 2000",
  "text": "Column (1)\nColumn (2)\nProvision of the Act\nSubject matter\nSection 2 (in so far as it is not already in force)\nPrimary Care Trusts\nSection 5 (except that the references in section 18A as inserted by section 5 to arrangements made under section 28C of the 1977 Act are brought into force for the purposes only of pilot schemes under Part I of the National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997)\nPrimary Care Trusts: provision of services\nSection 6(1)\nDelegation of Health Authority functions in relation to pilot schemes under the National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997\nSection 7\nPrimary Care Trusts: trust-funds and trustees\nSection 12 (in so far as it is not already in force)\nDirections\nSection 65(1) (in so far as it relates to the provisions of Schedule 4 specified below)\nAmendments of enactments\nSchedule 1 (in so far as it is not already in force except in so far as it inserts paragraphs 16 and 17 of Schedule 5A to the 1977 Act)\nPrimary Care Trusts\nSchedule 4–\nparagraphs 1 and 3\nparagraph 4 (in so far as it relates to any of the paragraphs 6 to 41 specified below)\nparagraphs 5 and 7\nparagraph 9 (in so far as it is not already in force)\nparagraphs 10 and 11\nparagraph 12 (in so far as it is not already in force)\nparagraphs 13, 23 and 25\nparagraph 27(a) (to the extent that it effects the substitution of paragraphs (b) to (d) of section 91(3) of the 1977 Act except in so far as those paragraphs relate to NHS trusts)\nparagraphs 28 and 29\nparagraphs 30, 34 and 37 (in so far as they are not already in force)\nparagraph 38(2)(a) and (c), and (3) (in so far as it is not already in force) and paragraph 38(1) in so far as it relates to it\nparagraph 40\nparagraph 71 (in so far as it effects the insertion of section 1(1B) of the Hospital Complaints Procedure Act 1985 and section 1(1C) of that Act in so far as it relates to subsection (1B))\nparagraph 74 (in so far as it relates to any of the paragraphs 75 to 84 specified below)\nparagraphs 77, 78, 79, and 81 (except (2)(b))\nparagraph 83 (in so far as it is not already in force) but not sub-paragraph (6)\nparagraph 87\nparagraph 88 (in so far as it is not already in force) but not sub-paragraph (6)\nparagraph 89",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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