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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-dental-services-amendment-regulations-1993/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1993/2209",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (General Dental Services) Amendment Regulations 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-dental-services-amendment-regulations-1993",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES\nMade 9th September 1993\nLaid before Parliament 10th September 1993\nComing into force 1st October 1993\nThe Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of powers conferred on her by sections 15(1)(b), 16, 35(1), 36(1) and (3) and 126(4) of the National Health Service Act 1977 and of all other powers enabling her in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "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), 2(g), (i) for the definition of “prescribed” and “regulations”. Section 15(1) was amended by the Health and Social Security Act 1984 (c. 48), section 5(2) and by the 1990 Act, section 12(1); section 16(1) was amended by the Health Services Act 1980 (c. 53), sections 1, 2 and paragraph 36 of Part I of Schedule 1, and by the 1990 Act, sections 3(3), 66(2) and Schedule 10; section 35(1) was substituted by the Family Practitioner Committees (Consequential Modifications) Order 1985 (S.I. 1985/39) (“the 1985 Order”), article 7(9); sections 36(1) and (3) were amended by the European Communities (Medical, Dental and Nursing Professions) (Linguistic Knowledge) Order 1981, S.I. 1981/432, article 3(3)(a), by the 1985 Order, article 7(10), by the Health and Medicines Act 1988, section 25(1) and paragraphs 1 and 4 of Schedule 2, and by the 1990 Act, section 24; and section 126(4) was amended by the 1990 Act, section 65(2)."
    }
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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