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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-social-care-act-2008-commencement-no6-transitory-and-transitional-provisions-order-2008/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2008/3168",
  "legislation_title": "The Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Commencement No.6, Transitory and Transitional Provisions) Order 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-social-care-act-2008-commencement-no6-transitory-and-transitional-provisions-order-2008",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "National Health Service, England\nMade 11th December 2008\nLaid before Parliament 17th December 2008\nComing into force 12th January 2009\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.",
  "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”."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/3168/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:20:16.374855+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."
}