{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-blood-authority-establishment-and-constitution-order-1993/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-blood-authority-establishment-and-constitution-order-1993/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1993/585",
  "legislation_title": "The National Blood Authority (Establishment and Constitution) Order 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-blood-authority-establishment-and-constitution-order-1993",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the National Blood Authority (Establishment and Constitution) Order 1993 and shall come into force on 1st April 1993.\n(2) In this Order—\n“the Authority” means the National Blood Authority established by this Order;\n“an old authority” means, in relation to an officer referred to in article 5 of this Order, the Central Blood Laboratories Authority or the North Western Regional Health Authority ;\n“the transfusion service” means the arrangements made by Regional Health Authorities with respect to the collection and supply of blood in their respective regions for the purposes of the health service.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See S.I. 1982/1515 and S.I. 1993/."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See S.I. 1981/1836, article 3 and Schedule."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/1994/589",
      "affecting_title": "The National Blood Authority (Establishment and Constitution) Amendment Order 1994"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/585/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:02:32.135069+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."
}