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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/strategic-health-authorities-establishment-and-abolition-england-order-2006/article-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/strategic-health-authorities-establishment-and-abolition-england-order-2006/article-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2006/1408",
  "legislation_title": "The Strategic Health Authorities (Establishment and Abolition) (England) Order 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/strategic-health-authorities-establishment-and-abolition-england-order-2006",
  "path": "article/8",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Provision for continuity in the exercise of functions",
  "text": "(1) Anything done before 1st July 2006 by or in relation to any of the old authorities shall be treated on and after that date as if done by or in relation to the relevant new authority.\n(2) The reference in paragraph (1) to anything done by or in relation to any of the old authorities includes without limitation any applications made, any authorisations, directions or notices given, and any complaints made, to, by or in relation to any of the old authorities.\n(3) Any instrument made by any of the old authorities continues in force in relation to the relevant new authority in accordance with its terms until it is varied or revoked by the relevant new authority.\n(4) So far as is necessary or appropriate, a reference in an agreement or other instrument to any of the old authorities shall be treated on and after 1st July 2006 as a reference to the relevant new authority.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/1408/article/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:28:28.313356+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}