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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-authorities-establishment-and-abolition-england-order-2001/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2001/740",
  "legislation_title": "The Health Authorities (Establishment and Abolition) (England) Order 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-authorities-establishment-and-abolition-england-order-2001",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND\nMade 7th March 2001\nLaid before Parliament 8th March 2001\nComing into force 1st April 2001\nThe Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 8(1) to (4) and (6) and 126(3), (4) and (5) of the National Health Service Act 1977 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1977 c. 49; section 8 was substituted by section 1(1) of the Health Authorities Act 1995 (c. 17) and amended by paragraph 5 of Schedule 4 to the Health Act 1999 (c. 8) (“the 1999 Act”); section 126(3) and (4) was amended by section 65(2) of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19) (“the 1990 Act”), by paragraph 27 of Schedule 2 to the National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997 (c. 46) and by paragraph 37(6) of Schedule 4 to the 1999 Act; section 126(5) was added by section 65(2) of the 1990 Act. The functions of the Secretary of State under these provisions are, so far as exercisable in relation to Wales, transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by article 2(a) of, and the entry for the 1977 Act in Schedule 1 to, the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999, S.I. 1999/672, as amended by section 66(5) of the 1999 Act."
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/740/introduction",
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  "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."
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