{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-social-care-act-2012/section-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-social-care-act-2012/section-16.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": "section/16",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Secure psychiatric services",
  "text": "(1) Section 4 of the National Health Service Act 2006 (high security psychiatric services) is amended as follows.\n(2) In subsection (1) for the words from the beginning to “duty to provide” substitute “The Board must arrange for the provision of”.\n(3) In subsection (3)—\n(a) after “may be provided” insert\n“— ”, and\n(a)\n(b) after paragraph (a) insert\n“, and\n(b) only by a person approved by the Secretary of State for the purposes of this subsection.”\n(4) After subsection (3) insert—\n“(3A) The Secretary of State may—\n(a) give directions to a person who provides high security psychiatric services about the provision by that person of those services;\n(b) give directions to the Board about the exercise of its functions in relation to high security psychiatric services.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 16 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)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 16 partly in force: s. 16 in force for specified purposes at Royal Assent, see s. 306(1)(d)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2012/7/section/16",
    "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."
}