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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-act-1977/schedule-11/paragraph-2",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1977/49",
  "legislation_title": "National Health Service Act 1977",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-act-1977",
  "path": "schedule/11/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) A notice to be served on any person for the purposes of section 57 above, or of any order or direction made or given under that section, shall be deemed to have been duly served on the person to whom it is directed if—\n(a) it is delivered to him personally; or\n(b) it is sent by registered post or the recorded delivery service addressed to him at his last or usual place of abode or place of business.\n(2) Where under section 57 and this Schedule a person has power to authorise other persons to act thereunder, the power may be exercised so as to confer the authority either on particular persons or on a specified class of persons.\n(3) Any permit, licence, permission or authorisation granted for the purposes of section 57 may be revoked at any time by the authority or person empowered to grant it.\n(4) Every document purporting to be an instrument made or issued by the Secretary of State or other authority or person in pursuance of section 57 and this Schedule or any provisions so having effect and to be signed by or on behalf of the Secretary of State, or that authority or person, shall be received in evidence and shall until the contrary is proved, be deemed to be an instrument made or issued by the Secretary of State, or that authority or person.\n(5) Prima facie evidence of any such instrument as is described in sub-paragraph (4) above may in any legal proceedings (including arbitrations) be given by the production of a document purporting to be certified to be a true copy of the instrument by or on behalf of the Secretary of State or other authority or person having power to make or issue the instrument.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Act repealed (except ss. 57, Sch. 11 and ss. 126, 128 so far as they relate to those provisions, which are repealed only for E.W., see s. 7(3) of the repealing Act; and except s. 41B(2)(6)(b) as amended by S.I. 2006/1056, which is repealed immediately after that amendment comes into force, see s. 8(4)-(6); and except ss. 19, 28J, 38, 39, 41, 41B(2)(6)(b), 42(2B)(2C), 42A, 42B, 43(2), 49F, 49H, 98, 128, Sch. 8 para. 2(2B), Sch. 8A, Sch. 9A para. 6, Sch. 12 paras. 2A(1)(b)(ba), 2B, Sch. 12B as amended by Health Act 2006 (c. 28) which are repealed immediately after those amendments come into force on 1.8.2008 and 9.5.2013, see s. 8(4)-(6); and except ss. 3, 15, 16CD, 16CE, 18A, 26, 28WA-28WF, 28X, 28Y, 38, 39, 43D, 44, 45A, 45C, 72, 103 as amended by Health Act 2006 (c. 28) and to the extent that they relate to primary ophthalmic services, which are repealed immediately after those amendments come into force on 1.8.2008, see s. 8(4)-(6)) (1.3.2007) by National Health Service (Consequential Provisions) Act 2006 (c. 43), ss. 6, 8(2), Sch. 4 (with saving for s. 126 in Sch. 2 para. 7 and general savings and transitional provisions in Sch. 2 Pt. 1 and transitory modifications relating to primary ophthalmic services in Sch. 3 para. 1); S.I. 2008/1972, art. 2; S.I. 2013/1112, art. 2Act: specified provisions amended and repealed and specified amendments and repeals by specified legislation commenced (1.3.2007 immediately before the National Health Service Act 2006 (c. 41) comes into force) by virtue of The National Health Service (Pre-consolidation Amendments) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/1407), arts. 1-3, Schs. 1, 2 (with art. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 11 ceases to have effect in relation to health service medicines (1.9.1999 for certain purposes and otherwise 1.11.1999) by 1999 c. 8, s. 38(5); S.I. 1999/2177, art. 2(3)(b)(4)(a)"
    }
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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