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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-trusts-membership-and-procedure-regulations-1990/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-trusts-membership-and-procedure-regulations-1990/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1990/2024",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service Trusts (Membership and Procedure) Regulations 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-trusts-membership-and-procedure-regulations-1990",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES\nMade 12th October 1990\nLaid before Parliament 19th October 1990\nComing into force 9th November 1990\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) and 128(1) 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; section 126(4) was amended by, and section 126(5) was inserted by, section 65(2) of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19) (“the 1990 Act”); section 128(1) was amended by the 1990 Act, section 26(2) and is cited for the definition “regulations”."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1990 c. 19."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/2024/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:59:17.528369+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."
}