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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-service-joint-consultative-committees-access-to-information-act-1986-repealed/section-4",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1986/24",
  "legislation_title": "Health Service Joint Consultative Committees (Access to Information) Act 1986 (repealed)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-service-joint-consultative-committees-access-to-information-act-1986-repealed",
  "path": "section/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Short title, commencement and extent.",
  "text": "(1) This Act shall be cited as the Health Service Joint Consultative Committees (Access to Information) Act 1986.\n(2) ThisAct shall come into force at the end of the period of two months beginning with the day on which this Act is passed.\n(3) Nothing in this Act applies in relation to any meeting of a joint committee held before the coming into force of this Act.\n(4) This Act extends to England and Wales only.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Act: ceased to have effect (E.) (1.4.2000) and (W.) (1.1.2001) by virtue of 1999 c. 8, s. 65(1), Sch. 4 para. 72 and repealed (9.2.2001) by 1999 c. 8, ss. 65(2), 67(1), Sch. 5; S.I. 1999/2793, art. 2(3)(c)(ii); S.I. 2000/2991, art. 2(2), Sch. 2; S.I. 2001/270, art. 2(c), Sch."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1986/24/section/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:59:18.443823+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."
}