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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-indicative-amounts-regulations-1997/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/980",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Indicative Amounts) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-indicative-amounts-regulations-1997",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES\nMade 20th March 1997\nLaid before Parliament 20th March 1997\nComing into force 1st April 1997\nThe Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of powers conferred on him by section 126(4) of the National Health Service Act 1977 and section 18(6) and (7) of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990, 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) as amended by the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19) (“the 1990 Act”), section 26(2)(g) and (i), for the definitions of “prescribed” and “regulations”. Section 126(4) was amended by the 1990 Act, section 65(2)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1990 c. 19. Section 18 was amended by paragraph 77 of Schedule 1 to the Health Authorities Act 1995 (c. 17)."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/980/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."
}