{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-care-act-2022/section-63",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-care-act-2022/section-63.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2022/31",
  "legislation_title": "Health and Care Act 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-care-act-2022",
  "path": "section/63",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "63",
  "heading": "Accounts, reports and forward plans",
  "text": "(1) In the National Health Service Act 2006—\n(a) in section 43, omit subsections (3B) and (3C) (requirements relating to content etc of forward plan for NHS foundation trusts);\n(b) in paragraph 27 of Schedule 7, omit sub-paragraphs (2) and (3) (which require the forward plan to be prepared by the directors etc).\n(2) In the Health and Social Care Act 2012—\n(a) omit section 155 (accounts: transfer of functions relating to accounts from the regulator to the Secretary of State);\n(b) in section 156 omit—\n(i) subsection (3) (power to provide for content of annual reports to be prescribed by regulations rather than determined by the regulator);\n(ii) subsection (4) (duty to give forward plan to Secretary of State, rather than to the regulator).",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 63 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 186(6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 63 in force at 1.7.2022 by S.I. 2022/734, reg. 2(a), Sch. (with regs. 13, 17, 29)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2022/31/section/63",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:56:41.503468+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."
}