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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-act-1999-supplementary-and-consequential-provisions-order-1999/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1999/2795",
  "legislation_title": "The Health Act 1999 (Supplementary and Consequential Provisions) Order 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-act-1999-supplementary-and-consequential-provisions-order-1999",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND\nNATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, WALES\nMade 10th October 1999\nLaid before Parliament 11th October 1999\nComing into force 1st November 1999\nThe Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of powers conferred on him by section 63 of the Health Act 1999 and section 126(4) of the National Health Service Act 1977, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1999 c. 8."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1977 c. 49. Section 126(4) applies in relation to any power to make regulations conferred by the Health Act 1999 (c. 8) (“the 1999 Act”) (see section 62(4) of the 1999 Act). Section 126(4) was amended by section 65(2) of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19) (“the 1990 Act”) and paragraph 37(5) of Schedule 4 to the 1999 Act."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/2795/introduction",
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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."
}