{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-authorities-act-1995-amendment-of-transitional-provisions-and-modification-of-references-order-1996/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-authorities-act-1995-amendment-of-transitional-provisions-and-modification-of-references-order-1996/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/971",
  "legislation_title": "The Health Authorities Act 1995 (Amendment of Transitional Provisions and Modification of References) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-authorities-act-1995-amendment-of-transitional-provisions-and-modification-of-references-order-1996",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendment and construction of references",
  "text": "(1) In the Schedule to the Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School Act 1984 (Scheme for management and control of Medical School)—\n(a) in paragraph 4(1)(b) and (2) for “District Health Authorities” there is substituted “Health Authorities”; and\n(b) in paragraph 5(f) for “District Health Authority” there is substituted “Health Authority”.\n(2) In any instrument (including any instrument made under an enactment) or any other document having effect on or before 31st March 1996, unless the context otherwise requires, any reference (however expressed) to—\n(a) a District Health Authority, a Family Practitioner Committee or a Family Health Services Authority shall be construed as a reference to a Health Authority;\n(b) the district of a District Health Authority or the locality of a Family Practitioner Committee or Family Health Services Authority shall be construed as a reference to the area of a Health Authority;\n(c) a Regional Health Authority shall—\n(i) in so far as that reference is made in connection with a function of a Regional Health Authority which is after 31st March 1996 a function of the Secretary of State, be construed as a reference to the Secretary of State,\n(ii) in so far as that reference is made in connection with a function of a Regional Health Authority which is after 31st March 1996 a function of a Health Authority, be construed as a reference to a Health Authority, and\n(iii) in so far as that reference is made in connection with a function of a Regional Health Authority which is after 31st March 1996 a function of a Special Health Authority, be construed as a reference to that Special Health Authority; and\n(d) the region of a Regional Health Authority shall, where that reference is made in connection with a function of a Regional Health Authority which is after 31st March 1996 a function of a Health Authority, be construed as a reference to the area of a Health Authority.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1984 c.xiii."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See section 2(1) of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/971/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:46:12.512231+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."
}