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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-service-commissioners-act-1993/section-8",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1993/46",
  "legislation_title": "Health Service Commissioners Act 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-service-commissioners-act-1993",
  "path": "section/8",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Individuals and bodies entitled to complain.",
  "text": "(1) A complaint under this Act may be made by an individual or a body of persons, whether incorporated or not, other than a public authority.\n(2) In subsection (1), “public authority” means—\n(a) a local authority or other authority or body constituted for the purposes of the public service or of local government (including the Assembly),\n(b) an authority or body constituted for the purposes of carrying on under national ownership any industry or undertaking or part of an industry or undertaking, and\n(c) any other authority or body—\n(i) whose members are appointed by Her Majesty or any Minister of the Crown or government department or by the Assembly, or\n(ii) whose revenues consist wholly or mainly of money provided by Parliament or out of the Scottish Consolidated Fundor the Assembly.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 8(2)(a) inserted (1.4.1999) by 1998 c. 38, s. 112, Sch. 10 para. 7(a) (with ss. 139(2), 14314.(2)); S.I. 1999/782, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 8(2)(c)(i)(ii) inserted (1.4.1999) by 1998 c. 38, s. 112, Sch. 10 para. 7(b) (with ss. 139(2), 143(2)); S.I. 1999/782, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 8(2)(c) inserted (1.7.1999) by S.I. 1999/1820, art. 4, Sch. 2 Pt. I para. 112(2); S.I. 1998/3178, art. 3"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1993/46/section/8",
    "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."
}