{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-blood-authority-and-united-kingdom-transplant-abolition-order-2005/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2005/2532",
  "legislation_title": "The National Blood Authority and United Kingdom Transplant (Abolition) Order 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-blood-authority-and-united-kingdom-transplant-abolition-order-2005",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order abolishes on 1st October 2005, the National Blood Authority and United Kingdom Transplant Special Health Authorities established under section 11 of the National Health Service Act 1977.\nThe Order revokes the Orders and Regulations specified in Schedule 1 (article 2) and makes the consequential amendments referred to in Schedule 2 (article 3).\nThe Order also makes provision for the transfer of rights, liabilities and property of the abolished Special Health Authorities and the transfer of staff from those Authorities to a Special Health Authority to be known as NHS Blood and Transplant to be established on 1st October 2005.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/2532/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:52:43.670336+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."
}