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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-ophthalmic-services-amendment-regulations-1989/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1989/395",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (General Ophthalmic Services) Amendment Regulations 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-ophthalmic-services-amendment-regulations-1989",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES\nMade 8th March 1989\nLaid before Parliament 10th March 1989\nComing into force 1st April 1989\nThe Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of powers conferred by sections 38(1), (3), (4), (5), (6) and (7), 39 and 126(4) of the National Health Service Act 1977 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:–",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1977 c. 49;see section 128(1) for the definition of “prescribed” and “regulations”. Section 38 was amended by section 1(3) of the Health and Social Security Act 1984 (c. 48) (“the 1984 Act”), and by the Health and Medicines Act 1988 (c. 49), section 13; section 39 was amended by section 1(4) of, and paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 to, the 1984 Act and by paragraph 52 of Schedule 1 to the Health Services Act 1980 (c. 53). Sections 38 and 39 were each modified by S.I. 1985/39, Article 7."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/395/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."
}