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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-social-care-act-2012/schedule-8/paragraph-18",
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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/8/paragraph/18",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Monitor must keep proper accounts and proper records in relation to the accounts.\n(2) The Secretary of State may, with the approval of the Treasury, give directions to Monitor as to—\n(a) the content and form of its accounts, and\n(b) the methods and principles to be applied in the preparation of its accounts.\n(3) In sub-paragraph (2), the reference to accounts includes Monitor's annual accounts prepared under paragraph 19 and any interim accounts prepared by virtue of paragraph 20.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 8 para. 18 partly in force; Sch. 8 para. 18 in force for specified purposes at Royal Assent, see s. 306(1)(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 8 para. 18 in force at 1.11.2012 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2012/2657, art. 2(2)"
    }
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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."
}