{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prescription-pricing-authority-constitution-order-1990/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1990/1718",
  "legislation_title": "The Prescription Pricing Authority Constitution Order 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prescription-pricing-authority-constitution-order-1990",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires—\n“the Act” means the National Health Service Act 1977;\n“Family Authority” means a Family Health Services Authority;\n“Pricing Authority” means the Prescription Pricing Authority.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words deleted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2002/2469",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002 (Supplementary, Consequential etc. Provisions) Regulations 2002"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/1718/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:08:18.427063+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."
}