{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-social-care-act-2008/section-155",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-social-care-act-2008/section-155.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2008/14",
  "legislation_title": "Health and Social Care Act 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-social-care-act-2008",
  "path": "section/155",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "155",
  "heading": "Power to form company",
  "text": "The Secretary of State may form, or participate in forming, one or more companies with a view to making arrangements under section 154(1) or (1A) with the companies for financial assistance under section 149 to be given, or other functions relating to such assistance to be exercised, by the company.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 155 inserted (1.7.2022) by Health and Care Act 2022 (c. 31), ss. 167(6), 186(6); S.I. 2022/734, reg. 2(a), Sch. (with regs. 13, 29, 30)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 155 in force at 1.12.2008 by S.I. 2008/2994, art. 3(1)(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2008/14/section/155",
    "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."
}