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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-supplies-authority-establishment-and-constitution-order-1991/note",
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  "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": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order provides for the establishment and constitution of a special health authority to be known as the National Health Service Supplies Authority for the purpose of exercising on behalf of the Secretary of State functions relating to the supply of goods and services for the purposes of the health service.\nThe Order makes provision for the transfer of officers formerly employed by District or Regional Health Authorities in connection with the supply of goods and services for the purposes of the health service (article 5).\nThe Order also makes provision for the remuneration of non-officer members (article 6).",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/2001/note",
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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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