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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patients-forums-functions-regulations-2003/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2003/2124",
  "legislation_title": "The Patients' Forums (Functions) Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patients-forums-functions-regulations-2003",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations make provision in relation to the functions of Patients' Forums established under section 15 of the National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002.\nThe Regulations make provision in relation to the exercise of Patients' Forums' functions in England. In particular, they make provision for joint exercise of functions and co-operation (regulation 2), rights of entry and inspection of premises (regulation 3), annual accounts (regulation 4), the provision of information to Patients' Forums (regulations 5 and 6), referrals to overview and scrutiny committees (regulation 7), and annual and other reports (regulation 8).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/2124/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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