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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nhs-health-scotland-transfer-of-officers-regulations-2003/note",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2003/153",
  "legislation_title": "The NHS Health Scotland (Transfer of Officers) Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nhs-health-scotland-transfer-of-officers-regulations-2003",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations provide in regulation 2(1) for the transfer on 1st April 2003 of those persons employed by the Common Services Agency and who are immediately before 1st April 2003 engaged in functions in relation to the provision of research and development services in the field of public health, to NHS Health Scotland. NHS Health Scotland is the new name by which the Special Health Board previously known as the Health Education Board for Scotland is to be known with effect from 1st April 2003.\nRegulation 2(2) and (3) provides that the contracts of employment so transferred shall be transferred with continuity of the contracts together with all rights and liabilities pertaining thereto.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2003/153/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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