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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-act-1999/schedule-4/paragraph-69",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-act-1999/schedule-4/paragraph-69.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1999/8",
  "legislation_title": "Health Act 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-act-1999",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/69",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "69",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Section 145 (interpretation) is amended as follows.\n(2) In subsection (1)—\n(a) after the definition of “Health Authority” there is inserted—\n““high security psychiatric services” has the same meaning as in the National Health Service Act 1977,”,\n(b) the definition of “special hospital” is omitted.\n(3) After that subsection there is inserted—\n“(1AA) Where high security psychiatric services and other services are provided at a hospital, the part of the hospital at which high security psychiatric services are provided and the other part shall be treated as separate hospitals for the purposes of this Act.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "S.I. 1977 c.49."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 69 wholly in force for E.W. at 1.4.2000, see s. 67(1) and S.I. 1999/2793, art. 2(3)(a), Sch. 3"
    }
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      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "asp/2004/7",
      "affecting_title": "National Health Service Reform (Scotland) Act 2004"
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      "type": "repealed",
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      "affecting_title": "National Health Service Reform (Scotland) Act 2004"
    },
    {
      "type": "repealed",
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      "affecting_title": "National Health Service Reform (Scotland) Act 2004"
    },
    {
      "type": "repealed",
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      "affecting_title": "National Health Service Reform (Scotland) Act 2004"
    },
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2006/28",
      "affecting_title": "Health Act 2006"
    }
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1999/8/schedule/4/paragraph/69",
    "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."
}