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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/branded-health-service-medicines-costs-amendment-regulations-2023/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2023/239",
  "legislation_title": "The Branded Health Service Medicines (Costs) (Amendment) Regulations 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/branded-health-service-medicines-costs-amendment-regulations-2023",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "National Health Service, England And Wales\nNational Health Service, Scotland\nHealth And Personal Social Services, Northern Ireland\nMade 28th February 2023\nLaid before Parliament 2nd March 2023\nComing into force 1st April 2023\nThe Secretary of State for Health and Social Care makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 263(1), 264(3), 266(1) and (4A) and 272(7) and (8) of the National Health Service Act 2006.\nThe Secretary of State has consulted in accordance with section 263(1) and (1A) of that Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2006 c. 41; section 263 was amended by the Health Service Medical Supplies (Costs) Act (c. 23) (“the 2017 Act”), section 5 and 10(5). Section 266 was amended by the 2017 Act, section 6(5) to (9) and 7(6). See section 275(1) of the National Health Service Act 2006 for definition of “regulations” that are relevant to the powers being exercised."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2023/239/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:48:40.387894+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."
}