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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/primary-care-trusts-consultation-on-establishment-dissolution-and-transfer-of-staff-regulations-1999/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1999/2337",
  "legislation_title": "The Primary Care Trusts (Consultation on Establishment, Dissolution and Transfer of Staff) Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/primary-care-trusts-consultation-on-establishment-dissolution-and-transfer-of-staff-regulations-1999",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations set out the consultation requirements which must be complied with before the Secretary of State may make or amend an order establishing a Primary Care Trust (regulations 2 and 3). They also set out the consultation requirements which must be complied with before the Secretary of State may make an order dissolving a Primary Care Trust or an order transferring the property, rights, liabilities and staff of a dissolving Trust (regulations 3 and 4(1)).\nIn addition, these Regulations prescribe the consultation requirements which must be complied with before the Secretary of State may make an order transferring to a Primary Care Trust the staff of a Health Authority, an NHS trust or another Primary Care Trust (regulation 4(2)).\nRegulation 5 requires the Health Authority conducting the consultation to report the results to the Secretary of State and provide him with advice on whether to make the relevant order.\nRegulation 6 provides that certain consultations required by these Regulations may be combined with certain other consultations under these Regulations, the National Health Service Trusts (Consultation on Establishment and Dissolution) Regulations 1996 (“the NHS Trusts Regulations”) or the Community Health Councils Regulations 1996. In particular, the effect of this regulation and regulation 2(8) of the NHS Trusts Regulations is that where the dissolution of a Primary Care Trust or an NHS trust is to be associated with the establishment of a new Trust, the consultation required in connection with the dissolution may be combined with the consultation required in relation to the establishment of the new Trust.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/2337/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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