{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pinderfields-and-pontefract-hospitals-national-health-service-trust-establishment-order-1997/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/582",
  "legislation_title": "The Pinderfields and Pontefract Hospitals National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pinderfields-and-pontefract-hospitals-national-health-service-trust-establishment-order-1997",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order establishes the Pinderfields and Pontefract Hospitals National Health Service Trust, an NHS trust provided for in section 5 of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990. It also provides for the functions of the trust (article 3). It specifies the operational date (the date on which the trust assumes all its functions) and the accounting date of the trust (article 5), and it specifies the value of assets in excess of which the Secretary of State is to consider the disposal of the assets (article 6).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/582/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."
}