{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/government-resources-and-accounts-act-2000-audit-of-public-bodies-order-2008/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/government-resources-and-accounts-act-2000-audit-of-public-bodies-order-2008/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2008/817",
  "legislation_title": "The Government Resources and Accounts Act 2000 (Audit of Public Bodies) Order 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/government-resources-and-accounts-act-2000-audit-of-public-bodies-order-2008",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "NHS Direct National Health Service Trust",
  "text": "(1) Section 53 of the Audit Commission Act 1998 (interpretation) is amended as follows.\n(2) In subsection (1), in the definition of “health service body”, after “Special Health Authority” insert “or NHS Direct National Health Service Trust”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1998 c.18. The definition of “health service body” in Section 53 was amended by the Health Act 1999 (c.8), section 65(2) and Schedule 5; the Health Act 2006 (c. 28), section 80(1) and Schedule 8, paragraphs 39 and 41; and the National Health Service (Consequential Provisions) Act 2006 (c. 43), section 2 and Schedule 1, paragraphs 281 and 296."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "The Trust was established by the NHS Direct National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/478)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2014/2",
      "affecting_title": "Local Audit and Accountability Act 2014"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/817/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:32:51.447147+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."
}