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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-trusts-dissolutions-order-2003/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2003/868",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service Trusts (Dissolutions) Order 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-trusts-dissolutions-order-2003",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Dissolution of NHS trusts",
  "text": "(1) Each of the National Health Service Trusts established by the National Health Service Trust Establishment Orders listed in paragraph (2) is dissolved and accordingly their Establishment Orders are revoked.\n(2) The National Health Service Trust Establishment Orders referred to in paragraph (1) are—\n(a) The Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals National Health Service Trust (Establishment) and the Mid Sussex National Health Service Trust (Dissolution) Order 2002;\n(b) The New Possibilities National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 1993 (the whole Order); and\n(c) The Wolverhampton Health Care National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 1994 (the whole Order).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2002/1363."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1993/2629."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1994/3197."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/868/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:27:08.844685+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."
}