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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/north-and-east-devon-partnership-national-health-service-trust-establishment-order-2001/article-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2001/1230",
  "legislation_title": "The North and East Devon Partnership National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/north-and-east-devon-partnership-national-health-service-trust-establishment-order-2001",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the North and East Devon Partnership National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 2001 and shall come into force on 1st April 2001.\n(2) In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires—\n“the Act” means the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990;\n“community health services” means any services which the Secretary of State may provide under section 3(1)(d) or (e) of, or Schedule 1 to, the National Health Service Act 1977 and any service which he has a duty to provide under section 5(1) or (1A) of that Act;\n“establishment date” means 1st April 2001;\n“operational date” has the meaning assigned to it in paragraph 3(1)(e) of Schedule 2 to the Act;\n“the trust” means the North and East Devon Partnership National Health Service Trust established by article 2 of this Order.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1977 c. 49; section 5(1) was amended by, and section 5(1A) was inserted by, section 10(1) of the Health and Medicines Act 1988 (c. 49) (“the 1988 Act”); Schedule 1 was amended by Schedule 12 to the Education Reform Act 1988 (c. 40), by paragraph 7 of Schedule 2 to the 1988 Act and by paragraph 46 of Schedule 37 to the Education Act 1996 (c. 56)."
    }
  ],
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    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2013/593",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service Trusts (Establishment) Amendment Order 2013"
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      "affecting": "uksi/2013/593",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service Trusts (Establishment) Amendment Order 2013"
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      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2022/634",
      "affecting_title": "The Health and Care Act 2022 (Consequential and Related Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2022"
    },
    {
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      "affecting_title": "The Health and Care Act 2022 (Consequential and Related Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2022"
    },
    {
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      "affecting": "uksi/2002/731",
      "affecting_title": "The North and East Devon Partnership National Health Service Trust Change of Name and (Establishment) Amendment Order 2002"
    }
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/1230/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:52:40.744895+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."
}