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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-protection-agency-scottish-health-functions-order-2006/article-1",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2006/559",
  "legislation_title": "The Health Protection Agency (Scottish Health Functions) Order 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-protection-agency-scottish-health-functions-order-2006",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Health Protection Agency (Scottish Health Functions) Order 2006 and shall come into force on 18th December 2006.\n(2) In this Order:–\n“chemicals authority” means any person or body which exercises statutory functions or performs statutory duties of a public nature in Scotland in relation to chemicals;\n“health care professional” means a member of a profession which is regulated by a body mentioned in section 25(3) of the National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002; and\n“public health authority” means any person or body which exercises statutory functions or performs statutory duties of a public nature in Scotland in relation to the protection of the community (or any part of the community) against any danger to health.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2002 c. 17."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "am",
      "affecting": "ssi/2007/316",
      "affecting_title": "The Health Protection Agency (Scottish Health Functions) Amendment Order 2007"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2006/559/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:17:12.577403+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."
}