{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-and-community-care-act-1990-commencement-no-4-and-transitional-provision-order-1990/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-and-community-care-act-1990-commencement-no-4-and-transitional-provision-order-1990/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1990/2218",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (Commencement No. 4 and Transitional Provision) Order 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-and-community-care-act-1990-commencement-no-4-and-transitional-provision-order-1990",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (Commencement No. 4 and Transitional Provision) Order 1990.\n(2) In this Order —\n(a) “the Act” means the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990, and\n(b) “the 1948 Act” means the National Assistance Act 1948.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1948 c. 29."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/2218/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:58:04.672256+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."
}