{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/stockport-national-health-service-trust-establishment-order-2000/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/stockport-national-health-service-trust-establishment-order-2000/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2000/842",
  "legislation_title": "The Stockport National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/stockport-national-health-service-trust-establishment-order-2000",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND\nMade 20th March 2000\nComing into force 1st April 2000\nThe Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 5(1) of, and paragraphs 1, 3, 4 and 5 of Schedule 2 to, the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, having completed the consultation prescribed under section 5(2) of that Act, hereby makes the following Order:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1990 c. 19; section 5 was amended by paragraph 69 of Schedule 1 to the Health Authorities Act 1995 (c. 17) and by the Health Act 1999 (c. 8) section 13; paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 is cited for the definition of “an order”: paragraph 3 of Schedule 2 to the 1990 Act was amended by the Health Act 1999 section 13(7)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See S.I. 1996/653."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/842/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."
}