{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-determination-of-districts-order-1991/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-determination-of-districts-order-1991/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/326",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Determination of Districts) Order 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-determination-of-districts-order-1991",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Transfer of officers employed by district health authorities",
  "text": "(1) Except as provided by paragraphs (2) and (3) of this article, any officer employed immediately before the material date by—\n(a) one of the old authorities, or\n(b) the old authorities jointly,\nis on the material date transferred to the employment of the relevant new authority.\n(2) Where—\n(a) this article makes provision for the transfer of an officer, and\n(b) the officer in question is employed jointly by one or more of the old authorities and another person,\nthat provision shall have effect to transfer that officer to the employment of the relevant new authority and that other person jointly.\n(3) Nothing in this article applies to any officer whose employment is, by or under Part I of the 1990 Act, to be transferred on the material date to Leeds General Infirmary and Associated Hospitals National Health Service Trust, Rugby National Health Service Trust or St. James’s University Hospital National Health Service Trust.\n(4) Where by virtue of this article the employment of an officer is transferred to the employment of a relevant new authority or of that authority jointly with another person, the contract of employment of that officer is modified so as to substitute the relevant new authority as the employer or as one of the joint employers.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See S.I. 1990/2421."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See S.I. 1990/2443."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "See S.I. 1990/2448."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/326/article/3",
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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."
}