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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-protection-agency-yr-asiantaeth-diogelu-iechyd-establishment-order-2003/article-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2003/505",
  "legislation_title": "The Health Protection Agency (Yr Asiantaeth Diogelu Iechyd) (Establishment) Order 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-protection-agency-yr-asiantaeth-diogelu-iechyd-establishment-order-2003",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Functions of the Agency",
  "text": "Subject to and in accordance with such directions as the appropriate authority may give to the Agency, the Agency shall perform—\n(a) such functions in connection with health protection; and\n(b) such other functions,\nas the appropriate authority may direct the Agency to perform on its behalf.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See, in particular, sections 16D, 17 and 18 of the National Health Service Act 1977 (c. 49); sections 16D and 17 were inserted by section 12(1) of the 1999 Act and were amended by section 3 of , and paragraphs 1,6 and 7 of Schedule 1 to, the 2002 Act; subsection (3) of section 17 was substituted by paragraph 5 of Schedule 5 to the Health and Social Care Act 2001 (c. 15). Section 18 was amended by sections 2(1), 5(1) and 3(8) of the 1995 Act, by paragraph 9 of Schedule 1 to, and Schedule 3 to, the 1995 Act, by section 12(3) and (4) of the 1999 Act and by sections 3 and 37(2) of, paragraphs 1 and 9 of Schedule 1 to, and Schedule 9 to, the 2002 Act."
    }
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/505/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:30:49.806763+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."
}