{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-clinical-negligence-scheme-amendment-regulations-2002/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-clinical-negligence-scheme-amendment-regulations-2002/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2002/1073",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Clinical Negligence Scheme) Amendment Regulations 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-clinical-negligence-scheme-amendment-regulations-2002",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement, interpretation and extent",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service (Clinical Negligence Scheme) Amendment Regulations 2002, and shall come into force on 6th May 2002.\n(2) In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the National Health Service (Clinical Negligence Scheme) Regulations 1996.\n(3) These Regulations extend to England only.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1996/251; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1997/527 and 2000/2341."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "The functions of the Secretary of State under section 126(4) of the 1977 Act and section 21 of the 1990 Act were transferred to the National Assembly for Wales under the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999. S.I. 1999/672. Article 2 and Schedule 1 as amended by section 66(5) of the 1999 Act."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/1073/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:00:09.766673+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."
}