{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-primary-care-act-1997-commencement-no-2-order-1997/article-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/2457",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997 (Commencement No. 2) Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-primary-care-act-1997-commencement-no-2-order-1997",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Saving",
  "text": "Notwithstanding article 2, in relation to—\n(a) expenditure of Health Authorities in respect of a financial year ending on 31st March 1998 or before; and\n(b) amounts allotted to Health Authorities in respect of such a financial year,\nsection 97 of the National Health Service Act 1977 shall continue to have effect as if this Order had not been made.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1977 c. 49. Section 97 was substituted by the Health Authorities Act 1995 (c. 17), Schedule 1, paragraph 47."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/2457/article/3",
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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."
}