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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-social-care-act-2008-miscellaneous-consequential-amendments-order-2010/article-20",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-social-care-act-2008-miscellaneous-consequential-amendments-order-2010/article-20.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2010/1881",
  "legislation_title": "The Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Miscellaneous Consequential Amendments) Order 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-social-care-act-2008-miscellaneous-consequential-amendments-order-2010",
  "path": "article/20",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Housing Benefit Regulations 2006",
  "text": "In regulation 2 of the Housing Benefit Regulations 2006 (interpretation), for the definition of “independent hospital” in paragraph (1), substitute—\n““independent hospital”—\n(a) in England, means a hospital as defined by section 275 of the National Health Service Act 2006 that is not a health service hospital as defined by that section;\n(b) in Wales, has the meaning assigned to it by section 2 of the Care Standards Act 2000; and\n(c) in Scotland, means an independent healthcare service as defined in section 2(5)(a) and (b) of the Regulation of Care (Scotland) Act 2001;”.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 20 in force at 1.10.2010, see art. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2006/213, to which there are amendments not relevant to this Order."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/1881/article/20",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:35:48.783251+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."
}