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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-social-care-act-2012/schedule-5/paragraph-40",
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  "legislation_title": "Health and Social Care Act 2012",
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  "path": "schedule/5/paragraph/40",
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  "number": "40",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In section 7 (persons discharged from hospital), in subsection (9)—\n(a) in the definition of “health authority”, in paragraph (a) for “a Primary Care Trust” substitute “a clinical commissioning group”, and\n(b) in the definition of “the managers”—\n(i) in paragraph (a)(i) for “, an NHS foundation trust or a Primary Care Trust” substitute “or an NHS foundation trust”,\n(ii) in the words following paragraph (a)(iii) after “means the” insert “Secretary of State where the Secretary of State is responsible for the administration of the hospital, or means the”,\n(iii) in those words omit “Strategic Health Authority,”, and\n(iv) omit paragraph (bb).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 5 para. 40 in force at 1.4.2013 by S.I. 2013/160, art. 2(2) (with arts. 7-9)"
    }
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      "affecting_title": "Additional Learning Needs and Education Tribunal (Wales) Act 2018"
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:08:58.603352+00:00"
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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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