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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/velindre-national-health-service-trust-establishment-order-1993/article-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1993/2838",
  "legislation_title": "The Velindre National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/velindre-national-health-service-trust-establishment-order-1993",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Velindre National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 1993 and shall come into force on 1st December 1993.\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 December 1993;\n“operational date” has the meaning assigned to it in paragraph 3(1)(e) of Schedule 2 to the Act;\n“the trust” means Velindre National Health Service Trust established by article 2 of this Order.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "wsi/2018/887",
      "affecting_title": "The Velindre National Health Service Trust (Establishment) (Amendment) Order 2018"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "wsi/2017/912",
      "affecting_title": "The Velindre National Health Service Trust (Establishment) (Amendment) Order 2017"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/2838/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."
}