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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-service-medical-supplies-costs-act-2017/section-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-service-medical-supplies-costs-act-2017/section-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2017/23",
  "legislation_title": "Health Service Medical Supplies (Costs) Act 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-service-medical-supplies-costs-act-2017",
  "path": "section/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Power to control prices",
  "text": "For section 262(2) of the National Health Service Act 2006 (circumstances in which powers not exercisable) substitute—\n“(2) If at any time a health service medicine is covered by a voluntary scheme applying to its manufacturer or supplier, the powers conferred by this section may not be exercised at that time in relation to that manufacturer or supplier as regards that medicine.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 4 in force at 7.8.2017 by S.I. 2017/809, reg. 2(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2017/23/section/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:05:27.176665+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."
}