{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/community-care-and-health-scotland-act-2002/section-13",
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  "legislation": "asp/2002/5",
  "legislation_title": "Community Care and Health (Scotland) Act 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/community-care-and-health-scotland-act-2002",
  "path": "section/13",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Payments by NHS bodies towards certain local authority expenditure",
  "text": "(1) An NHS body may, on such conditions as may be prescribed, after consulting the local authority in question, make payments to a local authority towards expenditure incurred, or to be incurred, by the authority in connection with the performance by them of such function of that authority as may be prescribed, being a function which, in the opinion of the body—\n(a) has an effect in relation to the health of individuals;\n(b) has an effect in relation to, or is affected by, any function of that body; or\n(c) is connected with any function of that body.\n(2) This section is without prejudice to section 16A of the 1978 Act (power to make payments towards expenditure on community services).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2002/5/section/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:17:06.261823+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."
}