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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-mandate-requirements-regulations-2016/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2016/51",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Mandate Requirements) Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-mandate-requirements-regulations-2016",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nRegulation 2 of these Regulations gives effect to the requirements set out in the Secretary of State’s mandate to the National Health Service Commissioning Board for the financial year from 1st April 2016 to 31st March 2017. The mandate was laid before Parliament and published on 17th December 2015.\nThe mandate is published at . A hard copy can be obtained by writing to the Department of Health, 79 Whitehall, London, SW1A 2NS.\nA full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no impact on the private or voluntary sectors is foreseen.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/51/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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