{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-services-act-1980/section-26",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-services-act-1980/section-26.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1980/53",
  "legislation_title": "Health Services Act 1980",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-services-act-1980",
  "path": "section/26",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "26",
  "heading": "Short title, commencement and extent.",
  "text": "(1) This Act may be cited as the Health Services Act 1980.\n(2) The following provisions of this Act, namely—\n(a) section 14;\n(b) section 16 and Schedule 4;\n(c) section 21;\n(d) section 25(2) and Schedule 5; and\n(e) in Schedule 7, the repeals in the Nursing Homes Registration (Scotland) Act 1938, the Nursing Homes Act 1975 and the Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors Act 1979 (and section 25(4) so far as it relates to those repeals),\nshall come into force on such day as the Secretary of State may appoint by order made by statutory instrument and different days may be appointed under this subsection for different provisions.\n(3) With the exception of the provisions specified in subsection (2) above, this Act shall come into force on its passing.\n(4) This Act does not extend to Northern Ireland.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1938 c. 73."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1975 c. 37."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "1979 c. 36."
    },
    {
      "type": "P",
      "label": "P1",
      "text": "Power of appointment conferred by s. 26(2) fully exercised: S.I. 1980/1257, S.I. 1981/306 and S.I. 1981/884, S. I. 1983/303"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1980/53/section/26",
    "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."
}