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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-act-2006/section-23",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-act-2006/section-23.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2006/28",
  "legislation_title": "Health Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-act-2006",
  "path": "section/23",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Crown application",
  "text": "(1) This Chapter binds the Crown.\n(2) No contravention by the Crown of any provision of this Chapter shall make the Crown criminally liable; but the High Court (or, in Scotland, the Court of Session) may declare unlawful any act or omission of the Crown which constitutes such a contravention.\n(3) The provisions of this Chapter apply to persons in the public service of the Crown as they apply to other persons.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 23 in force at 1.1.2007 for E. by S.I. 2006/3125, art. 2(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 23 in force at 1.3.2007 for S. by S.I. 2006/3125, art. 2(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I3",
      "text": "S. 23 in force at 13.12.2008 for W. by S.I. 2008/3171, art. 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I4",
      "text": "S. 23 in force at 1.8.2012 for N.I. by S.R. 2012/307, art. 2(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/28/section/23",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:14:18.053587+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."
}