{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-determination-of-districts-order-1993/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1993/574",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Determination of Districts) Order 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-determination-of-districts-order-1993",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order abolishes on 1st April 1993 the districts specified in Schedule 2, and determines the new districts specified in Schedules 3 and 4, for the purposes of the National Health Service Act 1977.\nThis Order makes provision for the transfer of officers (article 3) from health authorities abolished on 1st April 1993 by the National Health Service (District Health Authorities) Order 1993 to the relevant new health authorities established by that Order, and for the transfer of rights and liabilities of the abolished authorities (article 5). It also makes further provision consequential on the establishment of the new authorities.\nThis Order substitutes a new Part I in Schedule 1 to the National Health Service (Determination of Districts) Order 1981 which specifies districts for the purposes of the National Health Service Act 1977, and describes the areas which comprise those districts (article 2 and Schedule 5).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/574/note",
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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."
}