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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-social-care-act-2008/schedule-11/paragraph-21",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2008/14",
  "legislation_title": "Health and Social Care Act 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-social-care-act-2008",
  "path": "schedule/11/paragraph/21",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Section 64 of the 1984 Act (restriction on right to prosecute) is amended as follows.\n(2) For subsection (1) substitute—\n“(1) Proceedings in respect of an offence created by a provision of, or regulations under, this Act may not be taken by any person other than—\n(a) a relevant health protection authority,\n(b) a body whose function it is to enforce the provision or regulation in question, or\n(c) a person who made (or whose predecessors made) the regulation in question.”\n(3) Subsection (2) is omitted.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 11 para. 21 in force at 6.4.2010 for E. by S.I. 2010/708, art. 6(e) (with Sch. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 11 para. 21 in force at 26.7.2010 for W. by S.I. 2010/1547, art. 2(e) (with Sch. 1)"
    }
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2008/14/schedule/11/paragraph/21",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:12:00.738432+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."
}