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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-reorganisation-act-1973-repealed-2861995/section-17",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1973/32",
  "legislation_title": "National Health Service Reorganisation Act 1973 (repealed 28.6.1995)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-reorganisation-act-1973-repealed-2861995",
  "path": "section/17",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Transfers from Executive Councils and pricing committees.",
  "text": "(1) All property, rights and liabilities which immediately before the appointed day were property, rights and liabilities of an Executive Council or either of the pricing committees mentioned in section 14(1) of this Act shall by virtue of this subsection be transferred to and vest in the Secretary of State on that day; and the Secretary of State may by order provide for such of those rights and liabilities as are specified in the order to be enforceable by and against an Area Health Authority or special health authority or Family Practitioner Committee so specified instead of by and against the Secretary of State.\n(2) The Secretary of State may by order make such provision as he considers is appropriate in anticipation or in consequence of any transfer which is to be or has been made by virtue of the preceding subsection.",
  "extent": "E+W+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1973/32/section/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:47:15.419432+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."
}