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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-services-act-1980/section-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-services-act-1980/section-3.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1980/53",
  "legislation_title": "Health Services Act 1980",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-services-act-1980",
  "path": "section/3",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Extension of the powers to make services available to local authorities etc. under s. 26 of the Act of 1977 and s. 15 of the Scottish Act of 1978.",
  "text": "(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) In section 15 of the Scottish Act of 1978 (which empowers the Secretary of State, Health Boards and the Agency to supply goods and services to local authorities and others), in subsection (1), in paragraph (c), after the word “by” there shall be inserted the words “ or having contacts with ”.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 3(1) repealed (1.3.2007) by National Health Service (Consequential Provisions) Act 2006 (c. 43), s. 8(2), Sch. 4 (with Sch. 2 Pt. 1, Sch. 3 Pt. 1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X1",
      "text": "The text of ss. 1(7), 3, 5, 6(1)(3)(4), 7, 8(3), 9(5)(a)(b), 20, 23, and 25(2)-(4) is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1980/53/section/3",
    "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."
}