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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-social-care-act-2012/section-242",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-social-care-act-2012/section-242.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/242",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "242",
  "heading": "NICE's charter",
  "text": "(1) Regulations may make provision requiring NICE to publish a document explaining the functions of NICE and how NICE intends to exercise them (referred to in this section as “the charter”).\n(2) The regulations may, in particular, make provision about—\n(a) the information to be provided in the charter,\n(b) the timing of preparation of the charter,\n(c) review and revision by NICE of the charter, and\n(d) the manner in which the charter must or may be published.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 242 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. 242 partly in force; s. 242 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/242",
    "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."
}