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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/primary-care-trusts-functions-england-amendment-regulations-2001/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2001/745",
  "legislation_title": "The Primary Care Trusts (Functions) (England) Amendment Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/primary-care-trusts-functions-england-amendment-regulations-2001",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Primary Care Trusts (Functions) (England) Regulations (“the principal Regulations”), which make provision for functions of Health Authorities to be exercised by Primary Care Trusts and for certain restrictions on the exercise of those functions by Primary Care Trusts. The Regulations apply to Health Authorities and Primary Care Trusts in England.\nRegulation 2 amends regulation 2 of the principal Regulations (interpretation). Paragraph (2) makes a number of minor or drafting amendments to the definitions in regulation 2(1). In particular, to clarify that the “relevant date” for the purposes of identifying the “relevant Health Authority” is to be determined by reference to financial years, and that the “practice patients” for which a Primary Care Trust may be responsible by virtue of regulation 3(1)(a) do not include patients resident in Scotland. It also makes an amendment consequential on the National Health Service (Functions of Health Authorities and Administration Arrangements) (England) Regulations 2001.\nRegulation 3 amends regulation 6 of the principal Regulations, so that where a Primary Care Trust makes arrangements with medical practitioners for the vaccination and immunisation of persons against disease, medical practitioners performing personal medical services in connection with a pilot scheme under the National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997 in the trust’s area must be given an opportunity to participate in the arrangements.",
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  "version": "current",
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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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