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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-wales-national-health-service-trust-establishment-order-2009/article-3",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2009/2058",
  "legislation_title": "The Public Health Wales National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-wales-national-health-service-trust-establishment-order-2009",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Nature and functions of the trust",
  "text": "(1) The trust is established for the purpose specified in section 18(1) of the Act.\n(2) The trust’s functions are:\n(a) to provide to or in relation to the health service in Wales and manage a range of public health, health protection, healthcare improvement, health advisory, child protection and microbiological laboratory services and services relating to the surveillance, prevention and control of communicable diseases;\n(b) to develop and maintain arrangements for making information about matters related to the protection and improvement of health in Wales available to the public in Wales; to undertake and commission research into such matters and to contribute to the provision and development of training in such matters;\n(c) to undertake the systematic collection, analysis and dissemination of information about the health of the people of Wales in particular including cancer incidence, mortality and survival; and prevalence of congenital anomalies; and\n(d) to provide, manage, monitor, evaluate and conduct research into screening of health conditions and screening of health related matters.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 3 in force at 1.8.2009, see art. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2009/2058/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:55:42.316530+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}