{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheffield-teaching-hospitals-national-health-service-trust-establishment-order-2000/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2000/2909",
  "legislation_title": "The Sheffield Teaching Hospitals National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheffield-teaching-hospitals-national-health-service-trust-establishment-order-2000",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order establishes the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals National Health Service Trust as an NHS trust provided for in section 5 of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990.\nThe order provides for the functions of the trust (article 3) and the number of executive and non-executive directors (article 4). It specifies the operational date (the date on which the trust assumes all its functions), the accounting date of the trust (article 5) and the trust’s limited functions before the operational date (article 6). It also specifies the trust’s liabilities which will be discharged by the Sheffield Health Authority if incurred between the establishment date and the operational date (article 7).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/2909/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."
}