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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/deregulation-and-contracting-out-act-1994/schedule-16/paragraph-20",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1994/40",
  "legislation_title": "Deregulation and Contracting Out Act 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/deregulation-and-contracting-out-act-1994",
  "path": "schedule/16/paragraph/20",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) Sub-paragraph (3) below applies where a consent given before the commencement of this Part authorises the disclosure of any information to the Secretary of State, or to a medical practitioner who is an officer of the Secretary of State.\n(3) The consent shall have effect as if it also authorised the disclosure of the information—\n(a) to a medical practitioner who is provided by any person in pursuance of a contract entered into with the Secretary of State, and\n(b) if and to the extent that the Secretary of State so directs, to any employee of such a practitioner.\n(4) In this paragraph—\n“employee”, in relation to a medical practitioner, includes any person who performs ancillary services for the practitioner, and any employee of such a person;\n“medical practitioner” has the same meaning as in that Act.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 16 para. 20(1) repealed (29.11.1999) by 1998 c. 14, s. 86(2), Sch. 8; S.I. 1999/3178, art. 2, Sch. 1 (subject to transitional provisions in Schs. 21-23)"
    }
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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."
}