{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-service-commissioners-amendment-act-1996/section-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-service-commissioners-amendment-act-1996/section-6.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1996/5",
  "legislation_title": "Health Service Commissioners (Amendment) Act 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-service-commissioners-amendment-act-1996",
  "path": "section/6",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Exercise of clinical judgment.",
  "text": "(1) Section 5 of the 1993 Act (no investigation to be conducted of action taken in consequence of exercise of clinical judgment) shall be omitted.\n(2) In section 3 of the 1993 Act (general remit of Commissioners) after subsection (6) (inserted by section 2 above) there shall be inserted—\n“(7) Subsections (4) to (6) do not apply to the merits of a decision to the extent that it was taken in consequence of the exercise of clinical judgment.”",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/5/section/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:32:28.220765+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."
}