{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-service-commissioners-act-1993/section-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-service-commissioners-act-1993/section-6.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1993/46",
  "legislation_title": "Health Service Commissioners Act 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-service-commissioners-act-1993",
  "path": "section/6",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "General health services and service committees.",
  "text": "(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) The Commissioner shall not conduct an investigation in respect of action taken by a Primary Care Trust ... in the exercise of its functions under the National Health Service (Service Committees and Tribunal) Regulations 1992, or any instrument amending or replacing those regulations.\n(4) A Commissioner shall not conduct an investigation in respect of action taken by a Health Board in the exercise of its functions under the National Health Service (Service Committees and Tribunal) (Scotland) Regulations 1992, or any instrument amending or replacing those regulations.\n(5) The Commissioner shall not conduct an investigation in respect of action taken by a Primary Care Trust ... in the exercise of its functions under regulations made under section ... 126 or 129 of the National Health Service Act 2006 by virtue of section 17 of the Health and Medicines Act 1988 (investigations of matters relating to services).\n(6) A Commissioner shall not conduct an investigation in respect of action taken by a Health Board in the exercise of its functions under regulations made under section 19, 25(2), 26(2) or 27(2) of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 by virtue of section 17 of the Health and Medicines Act 1988.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 6(1)(2) repealed (1.4.1996) by 1996 c. 5, ss. 7(2), 13, Sch. 2; S.I. 1996/970, art. 2(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 6(3)(5) substituted (1.4.2006) by Public Services Ombudsman (Wales) Act 2005 (c. 10), s. 40, Sch. 6 para. 37(a) (with s. 38); S.I. 2005/2800, art. 5(1)(3); S.I. 2005/2800, art. 5(1)(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 6(3)(5) repealed (1.4.2006) by Public Services Ombudsman (Wales) Act 2005 (c. 10), s. 40, Sch. 6 para. 37(b), Sch. 7 (with s. 38); S.I. 2005/2800, art. 5(1)(3); S.I. 2005/2800, art. 5(1)(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 6(5)(6) inserted (1.4.1996) by 1996 c. 5, s. 7(3); S.I. 1996/970, art. 2(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 6(5) repealed (1.4.2004) by Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 (c. 43), s. 199(1)(4), Sch. 11 para. 63(a), Sch. 14 Pt. 4; S.I. 2004/288, arts. 5(2)(w), 6(2)(l) (with art. 7) (as amended by S.I. 2004/866 and S.I. 2005/2925); S.I. 2004/480, arts. 4(2)(aa), 5(2)(l) (with art. 6) (as amended by S.I. 2004/1019 and S.I. 2006/345); S.I. 2004/288, arts. 5(2)(w), 6(2)(l) (with art. 7) (as amended by S.I. 2004/866 and S.I. 2005/2925); S.I. 2004/480, arts. 4(2)(aa), 5(2)(l) (with art. 6) (as amended by S.I. 2004/1019 and S.I. 2006/345)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 6(5) substituted (1.3.2007) by National Health Service (Consequential Provisions) Act 2006 (c. 43), s. 8(2), Sch. 1 para. 167 (with Sch. 3 Pt. 1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "S.I. 1992/664."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "S.I. 1992/434."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "1988 c. 49."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M4",
      "text": "1978 c. 29."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M5",
      "text": "1988 c. 49."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 6(5) 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))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1993/46/section/6",
    "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."
}