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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-trusts-membership-and-procedure-amendment-regulations-1996/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/1755",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service Trusts (Membership and Procedure) Amendment Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-trusts-membership-and-procedure-amendment-regulations-1996",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES\nMade 8th July 1996\nLaid before Parliament 8th July 1996\nComing into force 29th July 1996\nThe Secretary of State for Health, as respects England, and the Secretary of State for Wales, as respects Wales, in exercise of powers conferred by sections 126(4) and (5) of the National Health Service Act 1977 and section 5(7) of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Regulations:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1977 c. 49; subsection (4) of section 126 was amended, and subsection (5) was inserted, by section 65(2) of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19) (“the 1990 Act”). See, for the definitions of “prescribed” and “regulations”, section 128(1), as amended by section 26(2)(g) and (i) of the 1990 Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1990 c. 19; section 5(7) was amended by paragraph 69(d) of Schedule 1 to the Health Authorities Act 1995 (c. 17)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1755/introduction",
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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."
}