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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-wales-act-2003-commencement-no-2-order-2003/note",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2003/3064",
  "legislation_title": "The Health (Wales) Act 2003 (Commencement No. 2) Order 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-wales-act-2003-commencement-no-2-order-2003",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis is the second Commencement Order under the Health (Wales) Act 2003 (“the Act”).\nArticle 2 brings into force, in its application to England, section 1 of, and Schedule 1 to, the Act. Section 1 omits section 20 of, and Schedule 7 to, the National Health Service Act 1977 and has the effect of disapplying the duty of the Secretary of State to establish Community Health Councils for districts in England.\nThe Order also commences consequential amendments and repeals.\nNOTE AS TO EARLIER COMMENCMENT ORDER",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2003/3064/note",
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  "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."
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