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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/northern-devon-healthcare-national-health-service-trust-establishment-order-1991/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1991/109",
  "legislation_title": "The Northern Devon Healthcare National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/northern-devon-healthcare-national-health-service-trust-establishment-order-1991",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND AND\nWALES\nMade 23rd January 1991\nComing into force 28th January 1991\nThe Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of powers conferred by section 5(1) of and paragraphs 1, 3, 4, 5 and 6(2)(d) of Schedule 2 to the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, having directed the relevant Regional Health Authority, as defined in section 5(4) of that Act, to consult the persons or bodies referred to in section 5(2) of that Act and having received and considered the results of that consultation, hereby makes the following Order:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1990 c. 19; paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 is cited for the definition of “an order”."
    }
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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."
}