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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-family-practitioner-committees-transitional-regulations-1984/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1984/1735",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Family Practitioner Committees: Transitional) Regulations 1984",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-family-practitioner-committees-transitional-regulations-1984",
  "path": "note",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "These regulations make provision arising out of the replacement of Family Practitioner Committees established or adopted by District Health Authorities (“old Committees”) by Committees established by the Secretary of State (“new Committees”). Under section 5 of the Health and Social Security Act 1984 (“the 1984 Act”) the new Committees will begin to act no later than 1st April 1985, and, until the new Committees begin to act, the old Committees continue to discharge their functions.\nRegulation 2 saves provisions relating to membership of old Committees for so long as those Committees continue to act, and extends the term of office of chairmen and members of such Committees until 31st March 1985.\nRegulation 3 concerns the procedure for nominating persons for membership of the new Committees. Under the National Health Service Act 1977 as amended by the 1984 Act, some nominations for membership of a new Committee are made by local representative Committees (for example a Local Medical Committee) formed for the locality of that new Committee and recognised by the Secretary of State. Regulation 3 provides (for the period up to 1st April 1985) that where there is not yet a local representative committee formed and recognised for the locality of a new Committee, nominations may be made by the representative committee formed for the district of the District Health Authority which established or adopted the corresponding old Committee.\nRegulation 4 saves, for the accounts for the financial year ending 31st March 1985, a provision requiring accounts prepared and transmitted to the Secretary of State by a District Health Authority to include accounts of the old Committee which it established or adopted.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1984/1735/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."
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