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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-social-care-act-2012/schedule-4/paragraph-1",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2012/7",
  "legislation_title": "Health and Social Care Act 2012",
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  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/1",
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  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) For section 2 substitute—\n“General power\n2 The Secretary of State, the Board or a clinical commissioning group may do anything which is calculated to facilitate, or is conducive or incidental to, the discharge of any function conferred on that person by this Act.”\n(2) For the cross-heading preceding section 2 substitute “General power”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 1 in force at 1.10.2012 for specified purposes by S.I. 2012/1831, art. 2(2) (with art. 10) (as amended (22.10.2012) by S.I. 2012/2657, art. 15)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 1 in force at 1.4.2013 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2013/160, art. 2(2) (with arts. 7-9)"
    }
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  },
  "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."
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