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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-social-care-act-2012/section-56",
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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/56",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "56",
  "heading": "Abolition of Health Protection Agency",
  "text": "(1) The Health Protection Agency is abolished.\n(2) The Health Protection Agency Act 2004 is repealed.\n(3) Subsection (2) does not apply to—\n(a) paragraph 3 of Schedule 3 to that Act (which amends Schedule 2 to the Immigration Act 1971), and\n(b) section 11(1) of that Act so far as it gives effect to that paragraph.\n(4) Schedule 7 (which makes amendments of other enactments in consequence of the provision made by this section) has effect.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 56 in force at 1.4.2013 by S.I. 2013/160, art. 2(2) (with arts. 7, 8(2), 9)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2012/7/section/56",
    "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."
}