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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/healthcare-improvement-scotland-delegation-of-functions-order-2016/note",
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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": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order delegates functions to Healthcare Improvement Scotland (“HIS”). The Scottish Ministers have a power, in section 2(5) of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978, to issue directions to Health Boards. That direction making power is delegated to HIS in certain circumstances (articles 2 and 3).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2016/86/note",
    "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."
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