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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-dental-practice-board-amendment-regulations-1999/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-dental-practice-board-amendment-regulations-1999/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/1999/52",
  "legislation_title": "The Scottish Dental Practice Board Amendment Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-dental-practice-board-amendment-regulations-1999",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE\nMade 3rd September 1999\nLaid before the Scottish Parliament 9th September 1999\nComing into force 1st October 1999\nThe Scottish Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 4(1), (1A) and (2), 25(1), 105(7) and 108(1) of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978, and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Regulations:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1978 c. 29; section 4(1) was amended by the Health and Medicines Act 1988 (c. 49) (“the 1988 Act”), section 25(2); section 4(1A) was inserted by the 1988 Act, section 12(3); section 105(7), which contains provisions relevant to the making of Regulations, was amended by the Health Services Act 1980 (c. 53), Schedule 6, paragraph 5 and Schedule 7, by the Health and Social Services and Social Security Adjudications Act 1983 (c. 41), Schedule 9, paragraph 24 and by the Health Act 1999 (c. 8), Schedule 4, paragraph 60; section 108(1) contains a definition of “regulations” relevant to the exercise of the statutory powers under which these Regulations are made. Section 12(1) of the 1988 Act renamed “the Scottish Dental Estimates Board” as “the Scottish Dental Practice Board”. The functions of the Secretary of State were transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46)."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/1999/52/introduction",
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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."
}