{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/west-hertfordshire-hospitals-national-health-service-trust-establishment-order-2000/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/west-hertfordshire-hospitals-national-health-service-trust-establishment-order-2000/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2000/732",
  "legislation_title": "The West Hertfordshire Hospitals National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/west-hertfordshire-hospitals-national-health-service-trust-establishment-order-2000",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Nature and functions of the trust",
  "text": "The trust’s functions shall be to provide goods and services, namely hospital accommodation and services and community health services, for the purposes of the health service.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 3 substituted (1.12.2021) by The West Hertfordshire Hospitals National Health Service Trust (Establishment) (Amendment) Order 2021 (S.I. 2021/1314), arts. 1(1), 3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/732/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:17:49.475929+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."
}