{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-act-1999/schedule-2/paragraph-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-act-1999/schedule-2/paragraph-8.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1999/8",
  "legislation_title": "Health Act 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-act-1999",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/8",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The Commission may arrange for the discharge of any of its functions by\n(a) a committee, sub-committee, member or employee of the Commission, or\n(b) any other person.\n(2) If the Commission arranges for the discharge of any function falling within section 20(1A) of this Act by one or more committees or sub-committees of the Commission, the persons by whom those functions are to be discharged are to be known collectively as “the Office for Information on Health Care Performance”.\n(3) If the Commission arranges for the discharge of any function as mentioned in sub-paragraph (1)(b), the arrangements may include provision with respect to the payment of remuneration and allowances to, or amounts in respect of, such persons.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 8 renumbered (11.7.2003) as Sch. 2 para. 8(1) by National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002 (c. 17), ss. 14(4)(a), 42(3); S.I. 2003/1580, art. 2(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 8(1)(a)(b) substituted (11.7.2003) for words by National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002 (c. 17), ss. 14(4)(b), 42(3); S.I. 2003/1580, art. 2(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 8(2)(3) inserted (11.7.2003) by National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002 (c. 17), ss. 14(4)(c), 42(3); S.I. 2003/1580, art. 2(2)(a)"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1999/8/schedule/2/paragraph/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:22:03.793953+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."
}