{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nhs-foundation-trusts-trust-funds-appointment-of-trustees-order-2007/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nhs-foundation-trusts-trust-funds-appointment-of-trustees-order-2007/note.json",
  "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": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order provides for the Appointments Commission to appoint trustees for the NHS foundation trusts specified in the Schedule. Under section 51 of the National Health Service Act 2006, such trustees may hold trust property for the purposes of the foundation trust or for any other purpose relating to the National Health Service. The Order also provides for the removal of trustees from office.\nThe Order revokes or amends certain Orders which provided for the appointment of trustees for NHS foundation trusts specified in the Schedule, including certain National Health Service trusts which became authorised as NHS foundation trusts after those Orders were made. The Order also makes transitional provision for trustees appointed under those Orders.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/1766/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:50:49.290256+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."
}