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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-act-1999-supplementary-consequential-etc-provisions-order-2000/schedule-2/paragraph-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2000/90",
  "legislation_title": "The Health Act 1999 (Supplementary, Consequential etc. Provisions) Order 2000",
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  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The Disabled Persons (Services, Consultation and Representation) Act 1986 is amended as follows.\n(2) In section 7 (persons discharged from hospital), in subsection (9), in the definition of “the managers”–\n(a) in paragraph (a)(i) there is omitted “a special hospital or”, and\n(b) paragraph (b) is omitted.\n(3) In section 11 (reports to Parliament), in the definition of “health service hospital” in sub-section (2)(a), for “special hospital” there is substituted “hospital at which high security psychiatric services within the meaning of that Act are provided”.\n(4) In section 16 (interpretation) the definition of “special hospital” is omitted.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1986 c. 33."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "The definition of “the managers” was amended by the 1990 Act, Schedule 9, paragraph 30(2) and the 1995 Act, Schedule 1, paragraph 111(3)(b)(ii), and is amended by this Order, Schedule 1, paragraph 18(3)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/2015/864",
      "affecting_title": "The Health and Social Care (Miscellaneous Revocations etc.) Order 2015"
    },
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2000/6",
      "affecting_title": "Powers of Criminal Courts (Sentencing) Act 2000"
    }
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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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