{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-social-care-act-2012/section-269",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-social-care-act-2012/section-269.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/269",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "269",
  "heading": "Power to confer functions in relation to identification of GPs",
  "text": "(1) Regulations may make provision conferring functions on NHS England in connection with the verification of the identity of general medical practitioners for purposes connected with the health service in England.\n(2) In subsection (1) “general medical practitioners” means persons registered in the General Practitioner Register kept by the General Medical Council.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 269(1) substituted (1.2.2023) by The Health and Social Care Information Centre (Transfer of Functions, Abolition and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/98), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 17(22) (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 269 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. 269 partly in force; s. 269 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/269",
    "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."
}