# Health and Social Care Act 2012, Section 56: Abolition of Health Protection Agency


(1) The Health Protection Agency is abolished.
(2) The Health Protection Agency Act 2004 is repealed.
(3) Subsection (2) does not apply to—
(a) paragraph 3 of Schedule 3 to that Act (which amends Schedule 2 to the Immigration Act 1971), and
(b) section 11(1) of that Act so far as it gives effect to that paragraph.
(4) Schedule 7 (which makes amendments of other enactments in consequence of the provision made by this section) has effect.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2012/7/section/56 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-social-care-act-2012/section-56
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