{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-act-1999/section-64",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-act-1999/section-64.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1999/8",
  "legislation_title": "Health Act 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-act-1999",
  "path": "section/64",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "64",
  "heading": "Interpretation.",
  "text": "In this Act—\n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n“the 1978 Act” means the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978,\n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n“enactment” includes an enactment whenever passed or made,\n“NHS trust” has the same meaning—\n(a). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(b)in Part II of this Act as in the 1978 Act.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 64: definition of \"the 1977 Act\" repealed (1.3.2007) by National Health Service (Consequential Provisions) Act 2006 (c. 43), ss. 6, 8(2), Sch. 4 (with Sch. 2 Pt. 1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 64: definition of \"the 1990 Act\" repealed (1.3.2007) by National Health Service (Consequential Provisions) Act 2006 (c. 43), ss. 6, 8(2), Sch. 4 (with Sch. 2 Pt. 1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 64: definition of \"Commission\" repealed (1.4.2004) by Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 (c. 43), ss. 196, 199, Sch. 14 Pt. 2; S.I. 2004/759, art. 13(2)(g)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 64: para. (a) in definition of \"NHS Trust\" repealed (1.3.2007) by National Health Service (Consequential Provisions) Act 2006 (c. 43), ss. 6, 8(2), Sch. 4 (with Sch. 2 Pt. 1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1978 c.29."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1999/8/section/64",
    "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."
}