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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-services-act-1980/schedule-3/paragraph-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-services-act-1980/schedule-3/paragraph-6.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1980/53",
  "legislation_title": "Health Services Act 1980",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-services-act-1980",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/6",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) In subsection (1) of section 23 (general interpretation, amendments and repeals) for the definition of “the principal Act” there shall be substituted the following definition— “ “the principal Act” means, for England and Wales, the National Health Service Act 1977 or, for Scotland, the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978; ”.\n(2) After subsection (2) there shall be inserted the following subsection—\n“(2A) The Secretary of State may by order provide that this Act shall extend to the Isles of Scilly with such modifications, if any, as are specified in the order, and except as may be so provided this Act does not extend to the Isles of Scilly.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 paras. 1–6, Sch. 3 repealed (1.4.1991) by National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19, SIF 113:2), s. 66(2), Sch. 10"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1977 c. 49."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1978 c. 29."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1980/53/schedule/3/paragraph/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:15:09.296475+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."
}