{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-trusts-consultation-on-dissolution-regulations-1991/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-trusts-consultation-on-dissolution-regulations-1991/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/1347",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service Trusts (Consultation on Dissolution) Regulations 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-trusts-consultation-on-dissolution-regulations-1991",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service Trusts (Consultation on Dissolution) Regulations 1991 and shall come into force on 1st July 1991.\n(2) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—\n“the Act” means the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990;\n“dissolution order” means an order under paragraph 29 of Schedule 2 to the Act dissolving an NHS trust;\n“relevant Community Health Council” means, in relation to an NHS trust, the Community Health Council for the district or part of the district in which the hospital, establishment or other facility in respect of which the NHS trust was established, is situated;\n“relevant Regional Health Authority” means, in relation to an NHS trust, the Regional Health Authority in whose region the hospital, establishment or other facility, in respect of which the NHS trust was established, is situated.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/1992/2905",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service Trusts (Consultation on Dissolution) Amendment Regulations 1992"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/1347/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:43:03.060153+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."
}