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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-boards-membership-and-procedure-scotland-amendment-regulations-2016/introduction",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2016/3",
  "legislation_title": "The Health Boards (Membership and Procedure) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-boards-membership-and-procedure-scotland-amendment-regulations-2016",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "National Health Service\nMade 6th January 2016\nLaid before the Scottish Parliament 8th January 2016\nComing into force 8th February 2016\nThe Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by paragraphs 4 and 11(a) and (c) of Schedule 1 to the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 and all other powers enabling them to do so.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1978 c.29. Paragraph 4 was amended by paragraph 1 of the schedule to the Health Boards (Membership and Elections) (Scotland) Act 2009 (asp 5) (the “2009 Act”). Paragraph 11(a) was modified by section 1(7) of the 2009 Act for the specified Health Board areas in S.S.I. 2009/242; section 1(7) remains in force for those areas by virtue of article 3(1) of S.S.I. 2013/364. Section 108(1) contains definitions of “regulations” and “prescribed”. The relevant functions of the Secretary of State were transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c.46)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2016/3/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:26:05.455337+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."
}