{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-service-commissioners-act-1993/section-2A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-service-commissioners-act-1993/section-2A.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1993/46",
  "legislation_title": "Health Service Commissioners Act 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-service-commissioners-act-1993",
  "path": "section/2A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2A",
  "heading": "Health service providers subject to investigation.",
  "text": "(1) Persons are subject to investigation by the Commissioner if they are or were at the time of the action complained of—\n(a) persons (whether individuals or bodies) providing services under a contract entered into by them with NHS England under section 84 , 100 or 117 of the National Health Service Act 2006\n(b) persons (whether individuals or bodies) undertaking to provide in England ... pharmaceutical services under ... that Act; or\n(c) individuals performing in England primary medical services or primary dental services in accordance with arrangements made under section 92 or 107 of that Act (except as employees of, or otherwise on behalf of, a health service body or an independent provider)\nor\n(d)individuals providing in England local pharmaceutical services in accordance with arrangements made under a pilot scheme established under section 134 of the National Health Service Act 2006 (except as employees of, or otherwise on behalf of, a health service body or an independent provider).\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) In this Act—\n(a) references to a family health service provider are to any person mentioned in subsection (1);\n(b) references to family health services are to any of the services so mentioned.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 2A and sidenote inserted (1.4.1996) by 1996 c. 5, s. 1; S.I. 1996/970, art. 2(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 2A(1) substituted (1.4.2006) by Public Services Ombudsman (Wales) Act 2005 (c. 10), s. 40, Sch. 6 para. 32(2) (with s. 38); S.I. 2005/2800, art. 5(1)(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 2A(1)(a)(b)(c) and words in s. 2A(1) substituted for words in s. 2A(1) (1.4.1998 with effect as mentioned in art. 3(3) of S.I. 1998/631) by 1997 c. 46, s. 41(10), Sch. 2 Pt. I para. 68(2); S.I. 1998/631, art. 2(1)(b), Sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 2A(1) inserted (23.2.2001) by 2000 c. 28, ss. 1(1)(2)(a), 4(2) (with s. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 2A substituted (1.7.2022) by Health and Care Act 2022 (c. 31), s. 186(6), Sch. 1 para. 1(1)(2); S.I. 2022/734, reg. 2(a), Sch. (with regs. 13, 29, 30)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 2A(1)(a) substituted (1.3.2007) by National Health Service (Consequential Provisions) Act 2006 (c. 43), s. 8(2), Sch. 1 para. 166(a) (with Sch. 3 Pt. 1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in s. 2A(1)(a) substituted (1.8.2008) by Health Act 2006 (c. 28), s. 83(7), Sch. 8 para. 33(a); S.I. 2008/1972, art. 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in s. 2A(1)(b) repealed (1.8.2008) by Health Act 2006 (c. 28), s. 83(7), Sch. 8 para. 33(b), Sch. 9; S.I. 2008/1972, art. 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in s. 2A(1)(b) omitted (1.3.2007) by virtue of National Health Service (Consequential Provisions) Act 2006 (c. 43), s. 8(2), Sch. 1 para. 166(b) (with Sch. 3 Pt. 1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Word in s. 2A(1)(b) repealed (E.) (12.12.2002) by S.I. 2002/2861, art. 26(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Word in s. 2A(1)(c) substituted (1.4.2004) by Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 (c. 43), s. 199(1)(4), Sch. 11 para. 62(2)(b); S.I. 2004/288, art. 5(2)(w) (with art. 7) (as amended by S.I. 2004/866 and S.I. 2005/2925); S.I. 2004/480, art. 4(2)(aa) (with art. 6) (as amended by S.I. 2004/1019 and S.I. 2006/345); S.I. 2004/288, art. 5(2)(w) (with art. 7) (as amended by S.I. 2004/866 and S.I. 2005/2925); S.I. 2004/480, art. 4(2)(aa) (with art. 6) (as amended by S.I. 2004/1019 and S.I. 2006/345)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F12",
      "text": "Words in s. 2A(1)(c) substituted (1.3.2007) by National Health Service (Consequential Provisions) Act 2006 (c. 43), s. 8(2), Sch. 1 para. 166(c) (with Sch. 3 Pt. 1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F13",
      "text": "S. 2A(1)(d) and the word preceding it inserted (E.) (12.12.2002) by S.I. 2002/2861, art. 26(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F14",
      "text": "Words in s. 2A(1)(d) substituted (1.3.2007) by National Health Service (Consequential Provisions) Act 2006 (c. 43), s. 8(2), Sch. 1 para. 166(d) (with Sch. 3 Pt. 1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F15",
      "text": "S. 2A(2) repealed (1.4.2006) by Public Services Ombudsman (Wales) Act 2005 (c. 10), s. 40, Sch. 6 para. 32(3), Sch. 7 (with s. 38); S.I. 2005/2800, art. 5(1)(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F16",
      "text": "S. 2A(3) omitted (14.7.2004) by virtue of The Scottish Public Services Ombudsman Act 2002 (Consequential Provisions and Modifications) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/1823), arts. 1, 17(4)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F17",
      "text": "Words in s. 2A(4) substituted (1.4.2006) by Public Services Ombudsman (Wales) Act 2005 (c. 10), s. 40, Sch. 6 para. 32(4) (with s. 38); S.I. 2005/2800, art. 5(1)(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 2A savings for effects of 2003 c. 43, Sch. 11 para. 62-68 (E.S.) (1.4.2004) by The General Medical Services and Personal Medical Services Transitional and Consequential Provisions Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/865), arts. 1(1), 113 (with art. 1(3))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 2A applied (with modifications) (E.) (1.4.2006) by The National Health Service (Local Pharmaceutical Services etc.) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/552), reg. 1(1), Sch. 1 para. 11"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "S. 2A(1)(a)(2)(a) modified (E.) (1.4.2004) by The General Medical Services and Personal Medical Services Transitional and Consequential Provisions Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/865), arts. 1(1), 109(2)(e)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2022/31",
      "affecting_title": "Health and Care Act 2022"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1993/46/section/2A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:34:38.799510+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."
}