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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-litigation-authority-establishment-and-constitution-amendment-order-2013/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2013/295",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service Litigation Authority (Establishment and Constitution) Amendment Order 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-litigation-authority-establishment-and-constitution-amendment-order-2013",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order amends the National Health Service Litigation Authority (Establishment and Constitution) Order 1995 (the Establishment Order).\nArticle 3 amends the functions of the National Health Service Litigation Authority (the Authority) so as to replace the reference to Primary Care Trusts, as they are being abolished, with the NHS Commissioning Board. This article applies to England only as the functions relating to the NHS Commissioning Board are not carried out in Wales.\nThe Authority will be directed to carry out the Secretary of State’s appellate and other functions, in connection with the decisions and functions of the NHS Commissioning Board.\nArticle 4 increases the number of members of the Authority who are officers from three to four and amends the posts to which such members are appointed.\nArticle 5 of this Order amends the Establishment Order to provide for the transfer of staff who are engaged in carrying out the functions of assessing the performance of doctors, dentists and pharmacists engaged in the NHS, from the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (the Institute) to the Authority. The Institute is being abolished as a Special Health Authority on 1st April 2013. These functions were conferred on the Institute by means of directions of the Secretary of State under sections 7 and 8 of the National Health Service Act 2006. Instead the Authority will be directed to carry out these functions. Article 5 also provides for the transfer of property and liabilities relating to those functions, from the Institute to the Authority.\nArticle 6 revokes article 5 of the Establishment Order.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/295/note",
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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."
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