{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-supplies-authority-establishment-and-constitution-order-1991/article-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-supplies-authority-establishment-and-constitution-order-1991/article-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/2001",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service Supplies Authority (Establishment and Constitution) Order 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-supplies-authority-establishment-and-constitution-order-1991",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Transfer of staff",
  "text": "(1) This paragraph applies to any officer who is, immediately before 1st January 1992, employed by a District Health Authority whose District is in England or a Regional Health Authority (in this article referred to as an “old Authority” and who has been placed at the disposal of the Secretary of State solely or mainly for the purpose of performing functions in relation to the purchase, storage and distribution of supplies for the purposes of the health service.\n(2) This paragraph applies to any officer who is, immediately before 1st October 1992, employed by an old Authority solely or mainly for the purpose of performing functions in relation to the purchase, storage, and distribution of supplies for the purposes of the health service.\n(3) Any officer to whom paragraph (1) or (2) of this article applies shall, in the case of the former, on 1st January 1992 and, in the case of the latter, on 1st October 1992 be transferred to the employment of the Authority, and the contract of employment between each such officer and an old Authority shall be modified so as to substitute the Authority as the employer in place of the old Authority.\n(4) Any dispute as to the application of this article in relation to any particular officer shall be determined by the Secretary of State.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/2001/article/5",
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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."
}