{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-health-boards-establishment-wales-order-2003/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-health-boards-establishment-wales-order-2003/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2003/148",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Health Boards (Establishment) (Wales) Order 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-health-boards-establishment-wales-order-2003",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order—\n“the 1977 Act” (“Deddf 1977”) means the National Health Service Act 1977;\n“establishment date” (“dyddiad sefydlu”) means 10th February 2003;\n“Local Health Board area” (“ardal Bwrdd Iechyd Lleol”) means the area of Wales for which a Local Health Board is established;\n“operational date” (dyddiad gweithredu”) has the meaning assigned to it in paragraph 1(2) of Schedule 5B of the National Health Service Act 1977 and;\n“principal local government area” (prof 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 were substituted by the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994 (1994 c. 19)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2003/148/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:12:15.462660+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."
}