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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-reform-scotland-act-2004-commencement-no-2-order-2004/article-2",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2004/361",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service Reform (Scotland) Act 2004 (Commencement No. 2) Order 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-reform-scotland-act-2004-commencement-no-2-order-2004",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Appointed day",
  "text": "The days appointed for the coming into force of the following provisions of the National Health Service Reform (Scotland) Act 2004 are:–\n(a) 1st September 2004, for:–\n(i) section 1(1), but only for the purpose of providing in that Act that the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 shall be referred to as “the 1978 Act”;\n(ii) section 2, but only for the purpose of enabling the Scottish Ministers to make regulations under section 4B(6) of the 1978 Act;\n(b) 30th September 2004, for:–\n(i) sections 1(2) and (3), 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7;\n(ii) section 2, so far as it is not already in force;\n(iii) section 11(1), so far as relating to schedule 1, paragraph 1(1), (2), (3) and (6); and\n(iv) schedule 1, paragraph 1(1), (2), (3) and (6);\n(c) 1st January 2005, for section 9; and\n(d) 1st February 2005, for section 8.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1978 c. 29."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2004/361/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:30:09.485777+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."
}