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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-social-care-act-2012/section-247",
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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": "section/247",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "247",
  "heading": "Interpretation of this Part",
  "text": "In this Part—\n...\n“health care” has the meaning given by section 240(4);\n“the health service” has the same meaning as in the National Health Service Act 2006 (see section 275(1) of that Act);\n“health services” has the meaning given by section 233(3);\n“NHS services” has the meaning given by section 234(11);\n“public health services” has the meaning given by section 234(11);\n“quality standard” has the meaning given by section 234(2);\n“social care” has the meaning given by section 233(3).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 247 omitted (1.7.2022) by virtue of Health and Care Act 2022 (c. 31), s. 186(6), Sch. 1 para. 18; S.I. 2022/734, reg. 2(a), Sch. (with regs. 13, 29, 30)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 247 in force at 1.4.2013 by S.I. 2013/160, art. 2(2) (with arts. 7-9)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2012/7/section/247",
    "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."
}