{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/portsmouth-hospitals-national-health-service-trust-establishment-amendment-order-2020/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2020/767",
  "legislation_title": "The Portsmouth Hospitals National Health Service Trust (Establishment) (Amendment) Order 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/portsmouth-hospitals-national-health-service-trust-establishment-amendment-order-2020",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "National Health Service, England\nMade 20th July 2020\nComing into force 29th July 2020\nThe Secretary of State for Health and Social Care makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 25(1) and 272(7)(a) and (8)(a) and 273(1) of the National Health Service Act 2006.\nIn accordance with section 25(3) of that Act, the Secretary of State has completed the consultation prescribed by regulations made under that section.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2006 c.41 (“the 2006 Act”). Section 179(2) of the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c.7) provides for the repeal of section 25 of the 2006 Act but this provision is not yet in force."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See S.I. 2010/743, to which there are amendments not relevant to this Order. The prescribed consultation under regulation 2(2) of S.I. 2010/743 is, before making an order under section 25(1) of the 2006 Act in relation to an NHS trust, consultation by the Secretary of State with that NHS trust."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/767/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:27:47.217667+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}