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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/north-cumbria-acute-hospitals-national-health-service-trust-establishment-order-2001/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2001/656",
  "legislation_title": "The North Cumbria Acute Hospitals National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/north-cumbria-acute-hospitals-national-health-service-trust-establishment-order-2001",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order establishes the North Cumbria Acute Hospitals National Health Service Trust, an NHS trust provided for in section 5 of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990.\nIt provides for the functions of the trust (article 3) and the number of executive and non-executive directors (article 4). It specifies the operational date (the date on which the trust assumes all its functions), the accounting date of the trust (article 5) and the trust’s limited functions before the operational date (article 6). It also specifies the trust’s liabilities which will be discharged by the North Cumbria Health Authority if incurred between the establishment date and the operational date (article 7).\nThis Order should be read in conjunction with the Carlisle Hospitals, the North Lakeland Healthcare and the West Cumbria Health Care National Health Service Trusts (Dissolution) Order 2001.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2001/655."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/656/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."
}