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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/south-tees-acute-hospitals-national-health-service-trust-establishment-order-1991/article-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1991/2402",
  "legislation_title": "The South Tees Acute Hospitals National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/south-tees-acute-hospitals-national-health-service-trust-establishment-order-1991",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "–\n(1) This Order may be cited as the South Tees Acute Hospitals National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 1991 and shall come into force on 1st November 1991.\n(2) In this Order unless the context otherwise requires–\n“the Act” means the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990;\n“establishment date” means 1st November 1991;\n“operational date” has the meaning assigned to it in paragraph 3(1)(e) of Schedule 2 to the Act;\n“the trust” means the South Tees Acute Hospitals National Health Service Trust -established by article 2 of this Order.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "rev in pt",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/1537",
      "affecting_title": "The South Tees Acute Hospitals National Health Service Trust Change of Name and (Establishment) Amendment Order 2001"
    },
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/1998/2950",
      "affecting_title": "The South Tees Acute Hospitals National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Amendment Order 1998"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/2402/article/1",
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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."
}