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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/state-hospitals-board-for-scotland-order-1995/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/state-hospitals-board-for-scotland-order-1995/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/574",
  "legislation_title": "The State Hospitals Board for Scotland Order 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/state-hospitals-board-for-scotland-order-1995",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of this Order unless the context otherwise requires—\n“the Act” means the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978;\n“the Board” means the Special Health Board, to be known by the name of the State Hospitals Board for Scotland, which is constituted by this Order;\n“enactment” includes order and regulation.\n(2) In this Order unless the context otherwise requires, a reference to an article or Schedule is to an article of, or the Schedule to, this Order and a reference to a paragraph is to a paragraph of the article in which the reference is made.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/574/article/2",
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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."
}