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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-social-care-act-2012-commencement-no-12-order-2026/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2026/852",
  "legislation_title": "The Health and Social Care Act 2012 (Commencement No. 12) Order 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-social-care-act-2012-commencement-no-12-order-2026",
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  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Commencement of provision",
  "text": "The day appointed for the coming into force of section 208 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012, in so far as it is not already in force, is the 1st October 2026.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See section 306(1) of the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c. 7) (“the Act”) for the provisions which came into force on the day the Act was passed, and S.I. 2012/1319 (C. 47), 2012/1831 (C. 71), 2012/2657 (C. 107), 2013/160 (C. 9), 2013/671 (C. 28), 2013/2896 (C. 117), 2014/39 (C. 2), 2014/1454 (C. 57), 2015/409 (C. 23), 2016/81 (C. 7) and 2018/617 (C. 49) for provisions of the Act which came into force by Order on earlier dates."
    }
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  "provenance": {
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:57:17.227774+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."
}