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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-care-act-2014-and-children-and-families-act-2014-consequential-amendments-order-2015/schedule/paragraph-28",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2015/9780111128626",
  "legislation_title": "The Care Act 2014 and Children and Families Act 2014 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-care-act-2014-and-children-and-families-act-2014-consequential-amendments-order-2015",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/28",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "28",
  "heading": "Mental Health Act 1983 (c. 20)",
  "text": "After section 117A insert—\n“After-care: exception for provision of nursing care\n117B (1) Section 117 does not authorise or require a local social services authority in England, in or in connection with the provision of services under that section, to provide or arrange for the provision of nursing care by a registered nurse.\n(2) In this section “nursing care by a registered nurse” means a service provided by a registered nurse involving—\n(a) the provision of care, or\n(b) the planning, supervision or delegation of the provision of care,\nother than a service which, having regard to its nature and the circumstances in which it is provided, does not need to be provided by a registered nurse.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 117A was inserted by the Care Act 2014, section 75(6)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2015/9780111128626/schedule/paragraph/28",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:10:06.937606+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."
}