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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/1780",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997(Commencement No. 1) Order 1997",
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  "heading": "PROVISIONS OF THE ACT COMING INTO FORCE ON 15TH AUGUST 1997",
  "text": "Column (1)\nColumn (2)\nProvision of the Act\nSubject Matter\nSection 9(1) and (2)\nRelationship between provisions of the Act and the National Health Service Act 1977.\nSection 10(1) and (2)\nRelationship between provisions of the Act and the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978.\nSection 13(1) and (3) to (8)\nPreferential treatment on transfer to medical lists.\nSection 18(1), (2) (except for paragraph (b)) and (3)\nFunding of preparatory work.\nSection 27\nProvision of additional pharmaceutical services.\nSection 28\nTerms and conditions for additional pharmaceutical services.\nSection 30\nDuty of registered opticians to refer certain persons to registered medical practitioners.\nSection 41(10), in so far as it relates to the provisions of Schedule 2 to the Act mentioned below\nIntroduction of Part I of Schedule 2.\nSchedule 2, Part I, paragraphs 13, 14, 20, 27, 44, 45 and 51\nMinor and consequential amendments relating to additional pharmaceutical services and regulations and directions under the 1977 Act and the 1978 Act.",
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  "version": "current",
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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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