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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-wheelchair-charges-regulations-1996/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/1503",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Wheelchair Charges) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-wheelchair-charges-regulations-1996",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES\nMade 10th June 1996\nLaid before Parliament 10th June 1996\nComing into force 1st July 1996\nThe Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of powers conferred on him by sections 81(a), 126(4) and (5) and 128(1) of the National Health Service Act 1977 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1977 c. 49; section 81(a) was amended by paragraph 22 of Schedule 2 to the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19) (“the 1990 Act”); section 126(4) was amended, and subsection (5) added, by section 65(2) of the 1990 Act; section 128(1), which is cited for the definitions of “prescribed” and “regulations”, was amended by section 26(2) of the 1990 Act."
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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."
}