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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-social-security-act-1984-commencement-no-2-order-1986/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1986/974",
  "legislation_title": "The Health and Social Security Act 1984 (Commencement No. 2) Order 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-social-security-act-1984-commencement-no-2-order-1986",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Day appointed",
  "text": "1st July 1986 is the day appointed for the coming into force of the following provisions of the Health and Social Security Act 1984:\n(a) section 1(3), (5)(a), (6) and (7) and Parts I and II of Schedule 1 (optical appliances);\n(b) the repeals in Schedule 8 relating to—\n(i) sections 44(1)(c), 46(1)(e), 72(5)(a), 81(b), 82(b) and 83(b) of, paragraphs 1(2)(c), 2(2)(a) and 6(3)(e) and (5)(iv) of Schedule 5 to, and Schedule 12 to, the National Health Service Act 1977,\n(ii) sections 26 (other than subsection (2)(c)), 29(1), 64(5)(a), 73(b), 74(b) and 75(b) of, and Schedules 8 and 11 to, the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978, and\n(iii) paragraphs 2(2) and (4) and 6(2) and (4) of Schedule 5 to the Health Services Act 1980;\n(c) section 24 so far as it relates to the repeals mentioned in paragraph (b) of this Article.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1986/974/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:47:06.102677+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."
}