{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-care-act-2022/section-72",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-care-act-2022/section-72.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2022/31",
  "legislation_title": "Health and Care Act 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-care-act-2022",
  "path": "section/72",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "72",
  "heading": "References to functions: treatment of delegation arrangements etc",
  "text": "(1) After section 275 of the National Health Service Act 2006 insert—\n“References to functions: delegation etc\n275A (1) A reference in this Act to the functions of a person includes functions of others that are exercisable by the person by virtue of any provision of any enactment (unless the context otherwise requires).\n(2) Regulations may create exceptions to subsection (1).”\n(2) Schedule 9 contains—\n(a) amendments that are consequential on this section and other provisions of this Part, and\n(b) other related amendments.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 72 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 186(6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 72 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/72",
    "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."
}