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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-functions-directions-to-authorities-and-administration-arrangements-regulations-1989/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1989/51",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service Functions (Directions to Authorities and Administration Arrangements) Regulations 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-functions-directions-to-authorities-and-administration-arrangements-regulations-1989",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations consolidate the National Health Service Functions (Directions to Authorities and Administration Arrangements) Regulations 1982, as amended and give effect to changes made by the Health and Medicines Act 1988 to the National Health Service Act 1977 which relate to dental services for school children and charges for private patients and overseas visitors. Regulations 3 to 8 direct Regional Health Authorities and District Health Authorities in Wales to exercise specified functions on the Secretary of State’s behalf and provide for the functions which Regional Health Authorities must direct District Health Authorities in England to exercise. Regulations 9 to 11 allow other bodies and persons to exercise functions under National Health Service legislation by arrangement with a Regional or District Health Authority or Family Practitioner Committee.\nThe instruments which these Regulations replace are revoked by regulation 12.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/51/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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