{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/primary-care-trusts-dissolutions-order-2003/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/primary-care-trusts-dissolutions-order-2003/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2003/1066",
  "legislation_title": "The Primary Care Trusts (Dissolutions) Order 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/primary-care-trusts-dissolutions-order-2003",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND\nMade 21st March 2003\nComing into force 1st April 2003\nThe Secretary of State for Health, in the exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 16A(1) and 126(3) and (4) of the National Health Service Act 1977 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1977 c. 49; section 16A was inserted by the Health Act 1999 (c. 8) (“the 1999 Act”), section 2(1); section 126(3) was amended by the National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997 (c. 46), section 41(10) and Schedule 2, paragraph 27; section 126(4) was amended by the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19), section 65(2) and by the 1999 Act (c. 8), Schedule 4, paragraph 37(6)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/1066/introduction",
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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."
}