{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-social-care-act-2012/schedule-21/paragraph-13",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-social-care-act-2012/schedule-21/paragraph-13.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2012/7",
  "legislation_title": "Health and Social Care Act 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-social-care-act-2012",
  "path": "schedule/21/paragraph/13",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In section 7 (NHS contracts), in subsection (4)—\n(a) omit paragraph (a),\n(b) omit paragraph (b),\n(c) before paragraph (c) insert—\n“(ba) the National Health Service Commissioning Board,\n(bb) a clinical commissioning group,”,\n(d) after paragraph (f) insert—\n“(fa) a Special Health Board constituted under that section,”,\n(e) omit paragraph (j), and\n(f) after paragraph (n) insert—\n“(na) the Scottish Ministers,\n(nb) Healthcare Improvement Scotland,”.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 21 para. 13(a)(b) in force at 1.4.2013 by S.I. 2013/160, art. 2(2) (with arts. 7-9)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 21 para. 13(c)-(f) in force at 1.2.2013 by S.I. 2012/2657, art. 2(4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2012/7/schedule/21/paragraph/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:08:58.603352+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."
}