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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-wales-act-2006/section-1",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2006/42",
  "legislation_title": "National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-wales-act-2006",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Welsh Ministers' duty to promote health service",
  "text": "(1) The Welsh Ministers must continue the promotion in Wales of a comprehensive health service designed to secure improvement—\n(a) in the physical and mental health of the people of Wales, and\n(b) in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of illness.\n(2) The Welsh Ministers must for that purpose provide or secure the provision of services in accordance with this Act.\n(3) The services so provided must be free of charge except in so far as the making and recovery of charges is expressly provided for by or under any enactment, whenever passed.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 1: Functions made exercisable by Local Health Boards (1.10.2009) by The Local Health Boards (Directed Functions) (Wales) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/1511), reg. 4, Sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/42/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:13:50.847860+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."
}