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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-social-care-act-2008/section-40",
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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": "section/40",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "40",
  "heading": "Periodic returns",
  "text": "(1) Regulations may require the person carrying on a regulated activity to make a return to the Commission at such intervals as may be prescribed.\n(2) Provision may be made by the regulations as to the contents of the return and the period in respect of which and date by which it is to be made.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 40 partly in force; S. 40 in force for specified purposes at Royal Assent, see s. 170"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 40 in force at 1.4.2009 for specified purposes by S.I. 2009/462, art. 2, Sch. 1 para. 15"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2008/14/section/40",
    "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."
}