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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/united-kingdom-transplant-support-service-authority-regulations-1991/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/united-kingdom-transplant-support-service-authority-regulations-1991/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/408",
  "legislation_title": "The United Kingdom Transplant Support Service Authority Regulations 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/united-kingdom-transplant-support-service-authority-regulations-1991",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MEDICAL PROFESSION\nNATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES\nMade 4th March 1991\nLaid before Parliament 8th March 1991\nComing into force 1st April 1991\nThe Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 13, 16(1), 17, 18(1), 126(4) and 128(1) of, and paragraphs 12, 12A and 16 of Schedule 5 to, the National Health Service Act 1977 and by section 3(1) of the Human Organ Transplants Act 1989, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf hereby makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1977 c. 49. Relevant amendments are made to section 13 by the Health Services Act 1980 (c. 53), Schedule 1, paragraph 33; to section 16(1) by the Health Services Act 1980, sections 1 and 2, and Schedule 1, paragraph 36, and by the National Health Service and Community Care Act (“the 1990 Act”) (c.19), section 3(3); section 17 was substituted by the Health and Social Security Act 1984 (c. 48), Schedule 3, paragraph 2; section 18 was amended by the Health Services Act 1980, Schedule 1, paragraphs 38 and 92, and the Family Pracitioner Committee (Consequential Modifications) Order 1985 (S.I. 1985/39), article 7(2); section 128(1), which is edited for the definition of “regulations”, was amended by the 1990 Act, section 26(2); paragraph 12 of Schedule 5 was amended by the 1990 Act, Schedule 1, paragraph 9; paragraph 12A of Schedule 5 was inserted by the 1990 Act, Schedule 1, paragraph 10."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1989 c. 31."
    }
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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."
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