{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-fund-holding-practices-general-regulations-1991/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-fund-holding-practices-general-regulations-1991/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/582",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Fund-holding Practices) (General) Regulations 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-fund-holding-practices-general-regulations-1991",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES\nMade 8th March 1991\nLaid before Parliament 11th March 1991\nComing into force 1st April 1991\nThe Secretary of State for Health, as respects England, and the Secretary of State for Wales, as respects Wales, in exercise of powers conferred by sections 126(4) and (5) and 128(1) of the National Health Service Act 1977 and sections 14(6), 15(7), 16(1) to (4) and 17 of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Regulations:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1977 c. 49; section 126(4) was amended by, and section 126(5) was inserted by, section 65(2) of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (“the 1990 Act”); section 128(1) was amended by section 26(2) of the 1990 Act and is cited for the definition of “regulations”."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "l990 c.19."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/582/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:48:34.172683+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."
}