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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-boards-membership-and-procedure-scotland-amendment-regulations-2025/introduction",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2025/147",
  "legislation_title": "The Health Boards (Membership and Procedure) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-boards-membership-and-procedure-scotland-amendment-regulations-2025",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE\nMade 13th May 2025\nLaid before the Scottish Parliament 15th May 2025\nComing into force 7th July 2025\nThe Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(10) and paragraph 2A of Schedule 1 of 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. Section 108(1) contains definitions of “prescribed” and “regulations” relevant to the exercise of the statutory powers under which these Regulations are made; paragraph 2A of Schedule 1 was inserted by section 27(3) and paragraph 2 of Schedule 5 of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19) and amended by section 1(3) of the Health Boards (Membership and Elections) (Scotland) Act 2009 (asp 5) for the purposes specified in article 2 of S.S.I. 2009/242. The 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/2025/147/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:35:39.969745+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."
}