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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-trusts-membership-and-procedure-scotland-amendment-regulations-1993/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1993/412",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service Trusts (Membership and Procedure) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-trusts-membership-and-procedure-scotland-amendment-regulations-1993",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the National Health Service Trusts (Membership and Procedure) (Scotland) Regulations 1991 (“the principal Regulations”) which make provision concerning the membership and procedure of NHS Trusts.\nRegulation 3(1) of the principal Regulations is amended to provide that, except in the case of trusts which (a) do not provide services directly to patients or (b) whose principal function is to provide ambulance or patient transport services, the executive directors of a trust shall include a medical or a dental practitioner.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/412/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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