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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/primary-care-trusts-functions-england-amendment-regulations-2002/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2002/555",
  "legislation_title": "The Primary Care Trusts (Functions) (England) Amendment Regulations 2002",
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  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND\nMade 8th March 2002\nLaid before Parliament 11th March 2002\nComing into force 1st April 2002\nThe Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of powers conferred on him by sections 17, 17A(4), 18(1) and (1A) 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 Regulations:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "text": "1977 c. 49; section 17 was substituted by the Health Act 1999 (c. 8) (“the 1999 Act”), section 12(1) and amended by the Health and Social Care Act 2001 (c. 15) (“the 2001 Act”), paragraph 5(3) of Schedule 5; section 17A was inserted by the 1999 Act, section 12(1); section 126(4) was amended by section 65(2) of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19) (“the 1990 Act”), by the 1999 Act, paragraph 37(6) of Schedule 4 and by the 2001 Act, paragraph 5(13)(b) of Schedule 5; see section 128(1), as amended by section 26(2)(g) and (i) of the 1990 Act, for the definition of “prescribed” and “regulations”; Schedule 5A was inserted by Schedule 1 to the 1999 Act. 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, and the entry for the 1977 Act in Schedule 1 to, the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999, S.I. 1999/672, as amended by section 66(5) of the 1999 Act. See also section 68 of the 2001 Act."
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  "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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