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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/west-hertfordshire-hospitals-national-health-service-trust-establishment-order-2000/note",
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  "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": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order establishes the West Hertfordshire Hospitals National Health Service Trust, an NHS trust provided for in section 5 of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990. It also provides for the functions of the trust (article 3) and the number of executive and non-executive directors (article 4). It specifies the operational date (the date on which the trust assumes all its functions) and the accounting date of the trust (article 5), the trust’s limited functions before the operational date (article 6) and the trust’s liabilities which will be discharged by the West Hertfordshire Health Authority if incurred between the establishment date and the operational date of the trust (article 7).\nThis Order should be read in conjunction with the Mount Vernon and Watford Hospitals and the St. Albans and Hemel Hempstead NHS Trusts (Dissolution) Order 2000.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2000/733."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/732/note",
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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."
}