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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/royal-brompton-and-harefield-national-health-service-trust-establishment-order-1998/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1998/784",
  "legislation_title": "The Royal Brompton and Harefield National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/royal-brompton-and-harefield-national-health-service-trust-establishment-order-1998",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order establishes the Royal Brompton and Harefield National Health Service Trust, an NHS trust provided for in section 5 of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990. It also provides for the functions of the trust (article 3). It specifies the number of executive and non-executive directors of the trust (article 4), and that one of the non-executive directors shall be appointed from the University of London (article 5). It specifies the operational date (the date on which the trust assumes all its functions) and the accounting date of the trust (article 6). It specifies the value above which assets cannot be disposed of without the Secretary of State’s consent (article 7).\nThis Order should be read in conjunction with the Dissolution of the Royal Brompton Hospital National Health Service Trust and the Harefield Hospital National Health Service Trust Order 1998.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1998/783."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/784/note",
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  "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."
}