{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/lifecare-national-health-service-trust-establishment-order-1990/article-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1990/2422",
  "legislation_title": "The Lifecare National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/lifecare-national-health-service-trust-establishment-order-1990",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Lifecare National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 1990 and shall come into force on 21st December 1990.\n(2) In this Order unless the context otherwise requires–\n“the Act” means the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990;\n“community health services” means any services which the Secretary of State has a function to provide under sections 3(1)(d) or (e) or 5(1)(a) and (1A) of, or Schedule 1 to, the National Health Service Act 1977;\n“establishment date” means 21st December 1990;\n“operational date” has the meaning assigned to it in paragraph 3(1)(e) of Schedule 2 to the Act;\n“the trust” means Lifecare National Health Service Trust established by article 2 of this Order.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1977 c. 49; section 5(1) was amended by, and section 5(1A) was inserted by, the Health and Medicines Act 1988 (c. 49), section 10(1); Schedule 1 was amended by the Education Act 1980 (c. 20), Schedule 1 and the Health and Medicines Act 1988, Schedule 2, paragraph 7."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/2422/article/1",
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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."
}