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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-direct-payments-wales-regulations-2026/introduction",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2026/104",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Direct Payments) (Wales) Regulations 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-direct-payments-wales-regulations-2026",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "national health service, wales\nMade 25 March 2026\nComing into force in accordance with regulation 1(2) and (3)\nThe Welsh Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 10C(1) to (4), and 203(9) and (10) of the National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006, make the following Regulations.\nIn accordance with the Senedd approval procedure applied by section 203(6) of the National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006, a draft of this Welsh statutory instrument was laid before, and approved by resolution of, Senedd Cymru.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2006 c. 42 (“the 2006 Act”); section 10C was inserted into the 2006 Act by section 24(2) of the Health and Social Care (Wales) Act 2025 (asc 1). See section 206(1) of the 2006 Act for the definition of “regulations”."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "The reference in section 203(6) of the National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006 to the National Assembly for Wales now has effect as a reference to Senedd Cymru by virtue of section 150A(2) of the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32)."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2026/104/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:54:51.489699+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."
}