{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pembrokeshire-and-derwen-national-health-service-trust-establishment-order-1997/article-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/876",
  "legislation_title": "The Pembrokeshire and Derwen National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pembrokeshire-and-derwen-national-health-service-trust-establishment-order-1997",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Pembrokeshire and Derwen National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 1997 and shall come into force on 1st April 1997.\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“operational date” has the meaning assigned to it in paragraph 3(1)(e) of Schedule 2 to the Act;\n“the trust” means the Pembrokeshire and Derwen 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 the Health and Medicines Act, 1988 (c. 49), section 25 and Schedule 3 and the Education Reform Act 1988 (c. 40), section 237 and Schedule 12; section 5(1A) and (1B) were inserted by the Health and Medicines Act 1988, section 10(1); Schedule 1 was amended by the Education Act 1993 (c. 20), Schedule 19, paragraph 70 and the Health and Medicines Act 1988, Schedule 2, paragraph 7."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/876/article/1",
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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."
}