{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-social-care-act-2008/section-72",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-social-care-act-2008/section-72.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/72",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "72",
  "heading": "Provision of material to the Comptroller and Auditor General",
  "text": "The Commission must, on request, provide the Comptroller and Auditor General with any material relevant to—\n(a) a review under section 46 ... in respect of an English NHS body,\n(b) a review or investigation under section 48 in respect of such a body, or\n(c) a study promoted, or undertaken, by the Commission under section 54.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 72(a) omitted (1.10.2014) by virtue of Care Act 2014 (c. 23), ss. 91(9)(d), 127(1); S.I. 2014/1714, art. 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 72 in force at 1.4.2009 for specified purposes by S.I. 2009/462, art. 2(1), Sch. 1 para. 23"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 72 in force at 11.12.2009 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2009/3023, art. 2(g) (with arts. 3-17) (as amended (8.2.2010) by S.I. 2010/47, art. 2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "omitted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2012/7",
      "affecting_title": "Health and Social Care Act 2012"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2012/7",
      "affecting_title": "Health and Social Care Act 2012"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2008/14/section/72",
    "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."
}