{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-information-authority-regulations-1999/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-information-authority-regulations-1999/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/694",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service Information Authority Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-information-authority-regulations-1999",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service Information Authority Regulations 1999 and shall come into force on 1st April 1999.\n(2) In these Regulations–\n“the Act” means the National Health Service Act 1997;\n“the Authority” means the National Health Service Information Authority established by the Order;\n“chairman” means the chairman of the Authority;\n“health service body” shall be construed in accordance with section 4 of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990;\n“member” means a member of the Authority other than the chairman;\n“non-officer member” and “officer member” mean respectively, a member who is not, and one who is, an officer of the Authority;\n“the Order” means the National Health Service Information Authority (Establishment and Constitution) Order 1999.\n(3) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, any reference to a numbered regulation is a reference to the regulation bearing that number in these Regulations, and any reference in a regulation to a numbered paragraph is a reference to the paragraph bearing that number in that regulation.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1990 c. 19."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1999/695."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2004/696",
      "affecting_title": "The Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 (Supplementary and Consequential Provision) (NHS Foundation Trusts) Order 2004"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2004/696",
      "affecting_title": "The Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 (Supplementary and Consequential Provision) (NHS Foundation Trusts) Order 2004"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/694/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:57:10.096617+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}