{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nhs-direct-national-health-service-trust-establishment-order-2007/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2007/478",
  "legislation_title": "The NHS Direct National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nhs-direct-national-health-service-trust-establishment-order-2007",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order establishes NHS Direct National Health Service Trust as a National Health Service trust under the terms set out in section 25 of the National Health Service Act 2006.\nThe Order sets out the functions of the trust (article 3), the number of non-executive and executive directors of the trust (article 4) the operational date (the date on which the trust assumes all its functions) and the accounting date of the trust (article 5).\nThis Order should be read in conjunction with the NHS Direct Special Health Authority Abolition Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/504).\nA full regulatory impact assessment has not been produced for this Order as it has no impact on the costs of business, charities or voluntary bodies.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/478/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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