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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-act-2006-commencement-no-1-and-transitional-provisions-order-2006/article-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2006/2603",
  "legislation_title": "The Health Act 2006 (Commencement No. 1 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-act-2006-commencement-no-1-and-transitional-provisions-order-2006",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, interpretation and application",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Health Act 2006 (Commencement No. 1 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2006.\n(2) In this Order—\n“the 1977 Act” means the National Health Service Act 1977;\n“the Act” means the Health Act 2006;\n“Welsh NHS bodies” has the meaning given by paragraph 2 of the Schedule 12B to the 1977 Act to be inserted by Schedule 3 to the Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1977 c.49."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/2603/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:20:18.047989+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."
}