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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-authorities-act-1995-transitional-provisions-order-1996/article-10",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/709",
  "legislation_title": "The Health Authorities Act 1995 (Transitional Provisions) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-authorities-act-1995-transitional-provisions-order-1996",
  "path": "article/10",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Investigation of other complaints.",
  "text": "(1) Any complaint made or any matter referred before 1st April 1996 under Part II of the Service Committees Regulations to a Family Health Services Authority but not disposed of by that date shall continue to be investigated by the relevant new authority as if any reference in those Regulations to a Family Health Services Authority were a reference to a Health Authority, and the appropriate committee under regulation 4 of those Regulations may continue to investigate such a complaint or, as the case may be, such a matter, as if that committee were a committee of the relevant new authority.\n(2) Any complaint made before 1st April 1996 under section 1 of the Hospital Complaints Procedure Act 1985 , but not disposed of before that date, in relation to a hospital managed by—\n(a) an old authority specified in column (1) in Part I or II of Schedule 1, or in Part I or II of Schedule 2; or\n(b) a Regional Health Authority,\nshall be dealt with by the relevant new authority.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1985 c. 42. Section 1 is amended by the Health Authorities Act 1995 (C.17), paragraph 109 Schedule 1."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/709/article/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:48:31.463587+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."
}