{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-authorities-act-1995-transitional-provisions-wales-amendment-order-1996/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-authorities-act-1995-transitional-provisions-wales-amendment-order-1996/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/3019",
  "legislation_title": "The Health Authorities Act 1995 (Transitional Provisions) (Wales) Amendment Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-authorities-act-1995-transitional-provisions-wales-amendment-order-1996",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Health Authorities Act 1995 (Transitional Provisions) (Wales) Amendment Order 1996 and shall come into force on 31st December 1996.\n(2) In this Order—\n“the 1985 Order” means the Joint Consultative Committees Order 1985;\n“the 1996 Order” means the Health Authorities Act 1995 (Transitional Provisions) Order 1996.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1985/305; the 1985 Order is revoked with effect from 1st January 1997 in relation to England and from 1st April 1997 in relation to Wales by virtue of the Joint Consultative Committees Order 1996 (S.I. 1996/2820)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1996/709, as amended by S.I. 1996/971 and 1996/2310."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/3019/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:31:00.758735+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."
}