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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-act-1999-commencement-no-9-order-2000/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-act-1999-commencement-no-9-order-2000/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2000/1041",
  "legislation_title": "The Health Act 1999 (Commencement No. 9) Order 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-act-1999-commencement-no-9-order-2000",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Appointed day",
  "text": "1st April 2000 is the day appointed for the coming into force of—\n(a) section 9 of the Act, to the extent that a day on which the provision is to come into force has not been appointed by the Health Act 1999 (Commencement No. 5) Order 1999;\n(b) section 21 of the Act, in so far as it is not already in force;\n(c) section 65(2) of the Act, in so far as it relates to the provisions of Schedule 5 to the Act specified in paragraph (d) of this article; and\n(d) in Schedule 5 to the Act (repeals), the repeals relating to the provisions specified in column (1) of the Schedule to this Order, to the extent specified in column (2) of that Schedule.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1999/2793 (C. 69); the Order provides that section 9 of the Act is to come into force on 1st April 2000 in England only."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/1041/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:12:41.257142+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."
}