{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-care-act-2022/section-66",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-care-act-2022/section-66.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2022/31",
  "legislation_title": "Health and Care Act 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-care-act-2022",
  "path": "section/66",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "66",
  "heading": "Transfers on dissolution of NHS foundation trusts",
  "text": "In section 57A of the National Health Service Act 2006 (dissolution)—\n(a) in subsection (3), omit paragraph (a) and the “and” at the end;\n(b) in subsection (4), for paragraph (b) substitute—\n“(b) transferring, or providing for the transfer of, the property and liabilities (including criminal liabilities) to another NHS foundation trust, an NHS trust established under section 25 or the Secretary of State.”;\n(c) after subsection (4) insert—\n“(5) The order must include provision for the transfer of any employees of the NHS foundation trust that is dissolved.”",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 66 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 186(6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 66 in force at 1.7.2022 by S.I. 2022/734, reg. 2(a), Sch. (with regs. 13, 29, 30)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2022/31/section/66",
    "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."
}