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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-social-care-act-2012/section-81",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-social-care-act-2012/section-81.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/81",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "81",
  "heading": "Requirement for health service providers to be licensed",
  "text": "(1) Any person who provides a health care service for the purposes of the NHS must hold a licence under this Chapter.\n(2) Regulations may make provision for the purposes of this Chapter for determining, in relation to a service provided by two or more persons acting in different capacities, which of those persons is to be regarded as the person who provides the service.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 81 in force at 1.4.2013 for specified purposes by S.I. 2013/671, art. 2(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 81 in force at 1.4.2014 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2014/39, art. 2(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I3",
      "text": "S. 81 partly in force; s. 81 in force for specified purposes at Royal Assent, see s. 306(1)(d)"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2012/7/section/81",
    "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."
}