{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nhs-direct-national-health-service-trust-dissolution-order-2014/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nhs-direct-national-health-service-trust-dissolution-order-2014/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2014/588",
  "legislation_title": "The NHS Direct National Health Service Trust (Dissolution) Order 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nhs-direct-national-health-service-trust-dissolution-order-2014",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "National Health Service, England\nMade 12th March 2014\nComing into force 1st April 2014\nThe Secretary of State for Health makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 25(1), 272(7) and 273(1) of, and paragraph 28 of Schedule 4 to, the National Health Service Act 2006.\nThe Secretary of State for Health makes this Order on the application of the NHS Direct National Health Service Trust, following the consultation prescribed under paragraph 28(3) of Schedule 4 to, that Act 2006.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2006 c.41. Section 179(2) of the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c.7) provides for the repeal of section 25 of the National Health Service Act 2006 (“the 2006 Act”) (subsection (4) of which gives Schedule 4 effect) but this provision is not yet in force."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See S.I. 2010/743, amended by S.I. 2013/235. No consultation is prescribed under section 25(3) of the 2006 Act with regard to an order revoking an NHS trust Establishment order."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/588/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:23:45.679476+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."
}