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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-social-care-act-2008-commencement-no16-transitory-and-transitional-provisions-order-2010/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2010/807",
  "legislation_title": "The Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Commencement No.16, Transitory and Transitional Provisions) Order 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-social-care-act-2008-commencement-no16-transitory-and-transitional-provisions-order-2010",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "National Health Service, England\nPublic Health, England And Wales\nSocial Care, England And Wales\nMade 15th March 2010\nLaid before Parliament 17th March 2010\nComing into force\nfor all purposes except article 23 and Schedule 2 6th April 2010\nfor the purposes of article 23 and Schedule 2 1st October 2010\nThe Secretary of State for Health makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 161(3) and (4), 167 and 170(3) and (4) of the Health and Social Care Act 2008. The Secretary of State has consulted the Welsh Ministers in accordance with section 172(3) of that Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2008 c.14. See section 171(2) of that Act for the definition of “appropriate authority”."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 172(3) of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (c.14) (“the Act”) requires the Secretary of State to consult the Welsh Ministers before commencing provisions in, or related to, particular paragraphs in Schedule 5 to the Act: the requirement to consult exists because those particular paragraphs relate to amendments to legislation that applies in Wales."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/807/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."
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