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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-personal-social-services-northern-ireland-order-1972/article-43",
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  "legislation": "nisi/1972/1265",
  "legislation_title": "Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1972",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-personal-social-services-northern-ireland-order-1972",
  "path": "article/43",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "43",
  "heading": "Powers of Ministry to conduct or assist research",
  "text": "The Ministry may conduct or promote, or assist (by grant or otherwise) any person in conducting, research into—\n(a) any matter relating to the causation, prevention, diagnosis or treatment of illness, or into such other matters relating to the health care as it thinks fit;\n(b) any matter relating to the social care.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Order substituted (1.4.2009) by Health and Social Care (Reform) Act (Northern Ireland) 2009 (c. 1), s. 34(3), Sch. 6 para. 1(1)(b); S.R. 2009/114, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Order substituted (1.4.2009) by Health and Social Care (Reform) Act (Northern Ireland) 2009 (c. 1), s. 34(3), Sch. 6 para. 1(1)(a); S.R. 2009/114, art. 2"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1972/1265/article/43",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:54:41.031010+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."
}