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Explanatory note

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(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order brings into force an amendment to section 2(1) of the National Health Service (Residual Liabilities) Act 1996 made by section 64 of the Public Bodies (Joint Working) (Scotland) Act 2014 (‘the Act’). The effect of the amendment is to extend provision for the transfer of residual liabilities of Scottish health service bodies to the Common Services Agency for the Scottish Health Service. The Common Services Agency is constituted under section 10 of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978. The Bill for the Act received Royal Assent on 1st April 2014. Sections 1(3) to (16), 5, 49, 53, 68 to 70, 72 and 73 came into force the following day.