{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-ophthalmic-services-scotland-amendment-regulations-2013/introduction",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2013/355",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (General Ophthalmic Services) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-ophthalmic-services-scotland-amendment-regulations-2013",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "National Health Service\nMade 18th December 2013\nLaid before the Scottish Parliament 20th December 2013\nComing into force 3rd February 2014\nThe Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 2(5), 26, 105(7), 106(a) and 108(1) of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 and all other powers enabling them to do so.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1978 c.29; Section 2(5) was amended by the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c.19), section 66(1) and Schedule 9, paragraph 19(1); section 26 was amended by the Health and Social Security Act 1984 (c.48), section 1(7) and Schedule 1, part II, paragraph 1, the Health and Medicines Act 1988 (c.49), section 13(4) and the Smoking, Health and Social Care (Scotland) Act 2005 (asp 13), section 13(2)(a) and (b) and section 19; section 105(7) was amended by the Health Services Act 1980 (c.53), Schedule 6, paragraph 5(1) and Schedule 7, the Health and Social Services and Social Security Adjudications Act 1983 (c.41), section 29 and Schedule 9, paragraph 24 and the Health Act 1999 (c.8), Schedule 4, paragraph 60; section 108(1) contains definitions of “prescribed” and “regulations” relevant to the exercise of the statutory powers under which these Regulations are made. The functions of the Secretary of State were transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c.46)."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2013/355/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."
}