{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wrightington-wigan-and-leigh-national-health-service-trust-establishment-order-2001/article-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2001/718",
  "legislation_title": "The Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wrightington-wigan-and-leigh-national-health-service-trust-establishment-order-2001",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 2001 and shall come into force on 26th February 2001.\n(2) In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires—\n“the Act” means the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990;\n“community health services” means any services which the Secretary of State may provide under section 3(1)(d) or (e) of, or Schedule 1 to, the National Health Service Act 1977 and any service which he has a duty to provide under section 5(1) or (1A) of that Act;\n“establishment date” means 26th February 2001;\n“operational date” has the meaning assigned to it in paragraph 3(1)(e) of Schedule 2 to the Act;\n“the trust” means the Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh National Health Service Trust established by article 2 of this Order.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1977 c. 49; section 5(1) was amended by, and section 5(1A) was inserted by, the Health and Medicines Act 1988 (c. 49) (“the 1988 Act”), section 10(1); Schedule 1 was amended by the Education Reform Act 1988 (c. 40), Schedule 12, by paragraph 7 of Schedule 2 to the 1988 Act and by the Education Act 1996 (c. 56) Schedule 37, paragraph 46."
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/718/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."
}