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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-complaints-regulations-2004/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-complaints-regulations-2004/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2004/1768",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Complaints) Regulations 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-complaints-regulations-2004",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND\nMade 9th July 2004\nLaid before Parliament 9th July 2004\nComing into force 30th July 2004\nThe Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 17(1) and 18(3) of the National Health Service Act 1977 and sections 113(1), (3) and (4), 115(1),(2), (4), (5) and (6) and 195(1), (2) and (4) of the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 hereby makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1977 c. 49. Section 17 was amended by the Health Authorities Act 1995 (c. 17), sections 2(1) and 8 and paragraph 8 of Schedule 1."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2003 c. 43."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/1768/introduction",
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  },
  "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."
}