{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-social-care-act-2008/section-42",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-social-care-act-2008/section-42.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/42",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "42",
  "heading": "Death of registered person",
  "text": "(1) Regulations may—\n(a) provide for the provisions of this Chapter to apply with prescribed modifications in cases where a person who was the only person registered under this Chapter as a service provider in respect of a regulated activity has died;\n(b) require the personal representatives of a deceased person who was registered as a service provider in respect of a regulated activity to notify the Commission of the person's death.\n(2) Regulations under subsection (1)(a) may in particular—\n(a) provide for the regulated activity to be carried on for a prescribed period by a person who is not registered in respect of it, and\n(b) include provision for the prescribed period to be extended by such further period as the Commission may allow.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 42 partly in force; S. 42 in force for specified purposes at Royal Assent, see s. 170"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 42 in force at 11.12.2009 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2009/3023, art. 2(d) (with arts. 3-17) (as amended (8.2.2010) by S.I. 2010/47, art. 2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2008/14/section/42",
    "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."
}