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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-medical-services-amendment-regulations-1996/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-medical-services-amendment-regulations-1996/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/702",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (General Medical Services) Amendment Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-medical-services-amendment-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service (General Medical Services) Amendment Regulations 1996 and shall come into force on 1st April 1996.\n(2) In these Regulations, “the principal Regulations” means the National Health Service (General Medical Services) Regulations 1992.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1992/635; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1993/540, 1994/633, 1994/3130 and 1995/80."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/702/regulation/1",
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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."
}