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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nhs-foundation-trusts-trust-funds-appointment-of-trustees-order-2007/article-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2007/1766",
  "legislation_title": "The NHS Foundation Trusts (Trust Funds: Appointment of Trustees) Order 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nhs-foundation-trusts-trust-funds-appointment-of-trustees-order-2007",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Transitional",
  "text": "(1) This paragraph applies to any person who, immediately before this Order comes into force, held office as a trustee for a foundation trust by virtue of an appointment made under any of the Orders mentioned in article 5 or 6.\n(2) A person to whom paragraph (1) applies is to continue to hold office as a trustee for the foundation trust, and this Order is to apply to him, as if he had been appointed as a trustee for the foundation trust under this Order for the period specified on his appointment.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The Orders mentioned in articles 5(b) and 6 provided for the appointment of trustees for certain National Health Service trusts which subsequently became authorised as NHS foundation trusts specified in the Schedule. Under section 51(4) of the National Health Service Act 2006, the Orders have effect in relation to those trusts as orders providing for the appointment of trustees for NHS foundation trusts."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2015/678",
      "affecting_title": "The NHS Foundation Trusts (Trust Funds: Appointment of Trustees) Amendment Order 2015"
    },
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      "type": "omitted",
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      "affecting_title": "The NHS Foundation Trusts (Trust Funds: Appointment of Trustees) Amendment Order 2015"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2012/2891",
      "affecting_title": "The NHS Foundation Trusts (Trust Funds: Appointment of Trustees) Amendment Order 2012"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2012/2950",
      "affecting_title": "The NHS Foundation Trusts (Trust Funds: Appointment of Trustees) Amendment (No. 2) Order 2012"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/1766/article/4",
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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."
}