{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/healthcare-improvement-scotland-delegation-of-functions-order-2016/article-3",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2016/86",
  "legislation_title": "The Healthcare Improvement Scotland (Delegation of Functions) Order 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/healthcare-improvement-scotland-delegation-of-functions-order-2016",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Delegation of function",
  "text": "This article applies where—\n(a) the direction is necessary in exercise of the Health Board’s duties under sections 36 and 37 of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978; and\n(b) HIS believes that, in the absence of such a direction, there is a serious risk to the life, health or wellbeing of persons.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The duties of Health Boards under sections 36 (accommodation and services) and 37 (prevention of illness, care and after-care) are conferred upon them by the Functions of Health Boards (Scotland) Order 1991 (S.I. 1991/570)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2016/86/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:25:01.996018+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."
}