{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-social-care-act-2012/schedule-21/paragraph-43",
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  "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/43",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "43",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Article 8 of the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1991 (health and social services contracts) is amended as follows.\n(2) In paragraph (2)—\n(a) in sub-paragraph (g)—\n(i) omit paragraph (i),\n(ii) omit paragraph (ii), and\n(iii) omit paragraph (iii),\n(b) after that sub-paragraph insert—\n“(ga) the National Health Service Commissioning Board;\n(gb) clinical commissioning groups established under section 14D of the National Health Service Act 2006;\n(gc) Special Health Authorities established under section 28 of that Act;\n(gd) Special Health Authorities established under section 22 of the National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006;\n(ge) Local Health Boards established under section 11 of that Act;\n(gf) NHS trusts established under section 18 of that Act;”,\n(c) in sub-paragraph (h) after paragraph (i) insert—\n“(ia) Special Health Boards;”,\n(d) after sub-paragraph (h) insert—\n“(ha) Healthcare Improvement Scotland,”,\n(e) omit sub-paragraph (i), and\n(f) before sub-paragraph (j) insert—\n“(ia) the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence;\n(ib) the Health and Social Care Information Centre;”.\n(3) In paragraph (10) for “paragraph 2(g), (h), (i) or (j)” substitute “any of sub-paragraphs (g) to (gf), (h), (ha), (ia), (ib) and (j) of paragraph (2)”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 21 para. 43(1) in force at 1.2.2013 for specified purposes by S.I. 2012/2657, art. 2(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 21 para. 43(1) in force at 1.4.2013 for specified purposes by S.I. 2013/160, art. 2(2) (with arts. 7-9)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I3",
      "text": "Sch. 21 para. 43(2)(a)(i)(ii)(f) in force at 1.4.2013 by S.I. 2013/160, art. 2(2) (with arts. 7-9)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I4",
      "text": "Sch. 21 para. 43(2)(b) in force at 1.2.2013 for specified purposes by S.I. 2012/2657, art. 2(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I5",
      "text": "Sch. 21 para. 43(2)(c)-(e)(3) in force at 1.2.2013 by S.I. 2012/2657, art. 2(4) (with art. 14)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2012/7/schedule/21/paragraph/43",
    "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."
}