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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-fund-holding-practices-regulations-1993/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-fund-holding-practices-regulations-1993/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1993/567",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Fund-holding Practices) Regulations 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-fund-holding-practices-regulations-1993",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES\nMade 9th March 1993\nLaid before Parliament 10th March 1993\nComing into force 1st April 1993\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 section 126(4) and (5) of the National Health Service Act 1977and sections 14(2) and (6), 15(7), 16(1) to (4) and (6) and (7) and 17 of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990and 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; see section 128(1) as amended by the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19) (“the 1990 Act”), section 26(1), and (2)(g) and (i) for the definition of “prescribed” and “regulations”. Section 126(4) was amended by, and section 126(5) was inserted by, section 65(2) of the 1990 Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1990 c. 19."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/567/introduction",
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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."
}