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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/primary-medical-services-scotland-act-2004-consequential-modifications-order-2004/schedule/paragraph-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2004/957",
  "legislation_title": "The Primary Medical Services (Scotland) Act 2004 (Consequential Modifications) Order 2004",
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  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In section 56(4)(a) of the Patents Act 1977 (interpretation, etc., of provisions about Crown use)–\n(a) in sub-paragraph (ai), after “services” where it first occurs insert “under Part 1 of the National Health Service Act 1977, Part 1 of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 or any corresponding provisions of the law in force in Northern Ireland or the Isle of Man”;\n(b) in sub-paragraph (i), after “1978” insert “(in the case of pharmaceutical services or general dental services)”; and\n(c) in sub-paragraph (ii), after “Act” insert “(in the case of personal dental services)”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Relevant amendments to section 56(4)(a) were made by the 1997 Act, Schedule 2, paragraph 2, and by the 2003 Act, Schedule 11, paragraph 6."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2006/43",
      "affecting_title": "National Health Service (Consequential Provisions) Act 2006"
    },
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/2006/1914",
      "affecting_title": "The Medical Act 1983 (Amendment) and Miscellaneous Amendments Order 2006"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/957/schedule/paragraph/2",
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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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