{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-health-boards-establishment-and-dissolution-wales-order-2009/article-2",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2009/778",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Health Boards (Establishment and Dissolution) (Wales) Order 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-health-boards-establishment-and-dissolution-wales-order-2009",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order—\n“dissolution date” (“dyddiad diddymu”) means 1 October 2009;\n“establishment date” (“dyddiad sefydlu”) means 1 June 2009;\n“Local Health Board area” (“ardal Bwrdd Iechyd Lleol”) means the area of Wales for which a Local Health Board under article 3 to this Order is established;\n“operational date” (“dyddiad gweithredol”) has the meaning assigned to it in paragraph 11(2) of Schedule 2 to the National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006; and\n“principal local government area” (“prif ardal llywodraeth leol”) means a principal local government area in Wales as set out in Parts I and II of Schedule 4 to the Local Government Act 1972.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1972 c. 70. Parts I and II of Schedule 4 to the Local Government Act 1972 were substituted by the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2009/778/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:56:32.572998+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."
}