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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/primary-care-trusts-establishment-amendment-order-2003/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2003/1740",
  "legislation_title": "The Primary Care Trusts (Establishment) Amendment Order 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/primary-care-trusts-establishment-amendment-order-2003",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND\nMade 14th July 2003\nComing into force 1st August 2003\nThe Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 16A(1) and (2) and 126(3) of the National Health Service Act 1977 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, following compliance with the consultation requirements contained in regulations made under section 16A(5) of that Act, hereby makes the following Order:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1977 c. 49; section 16A was inserted by section 2(1) of the Health Act 1999 (c. 8) (“the 1999 Act”), section 16A(1) was substituted for section 16A(1) as originally enacted by sections 2(1) and (2) of the National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002 (c. 17); section 126(3) was amended by section 65(2) of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19), paragraph 57 of Schedule 1 to the Health Authorities Act 1995 (c. 17) and section 41(10) of, and paragraph 27 of Schedule 2 to, the National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997 (c. 46). The functions of the Secretary of State under these provisions are, so far as exercisable in relation to Wales, transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by article 2(a) of the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999, S.I. 1999/672, as amended by section 66(5) of the 1999 Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1999/2337 as amended by S.I. 2002/2469."
    }
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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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