{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rampton-hospital-authority-abolition-order-2001/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rampton-hospital-authority-abolition-order-2001/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2001/714",
  "legislation_title": "The Rampton Hospital Authority (Abolition) Order 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rampton-hospital-authority-abolition-order-2001",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement, interpretation and extent",
  "text": "(1) This order may be cited as the Rampton Hospital Authority (Abolition) Order 2001 and shall come into force on 1st April 2001.\n(2) In this Order—\n“the Act” means the National Health Service Act 1977;\n“the Authority” means the Rampton Hospital Authority established by the Authorities for the Ashworth, Broadmoor and Rampton Hospitals (Establishment and Constitution) Order 1996;\n“the Trust” means the Nottinghamshire Healthcare National Health Service Trust;\n(3) This Order extends to England and Wales.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See S.I. 1996/488."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2000/2908."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "The powers under which this Order is made are by their nature exercisable concurrently with the Secretary of State by virtue of article 2(c) of the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 S.I. 1999/672."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/714/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:59:48.025974+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."
}