{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/levelling-up-and-regeneration-act-2023/schedule-4/paragraph-168",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/levelling-up-and-regeneration-act-2023/schedule-4/paragraph-168.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2023/55",
  "legislation_title": "Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/levelling-up-and-regeneration-act-2023",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/168",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "168",
  "heading": "National Health Service Act 2006 (c. 41)",
  "text": "In section 75 (arrangements between NHS bodies and local authorities), after subsection (7F) insert—\n“(7G) For the purposes of this section, a combined county authority that exercises a prescribed function within subsection (1)(a) of an NHS body under voluntary arrangements is to be treated as an NHS body.\n(7H) “Voluntary arrangements” means arrangements made with the combined county authority under—\n(a) section 7A (exercise of Secretary of State’s public health functions), or\n(b) section 65Z5 (joint working and delegation arrangements).\n(7I) Regulations under this section, so far as made before or in the same Session as that in which the Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023 is passed, apply to a combined county authority that is treated as an NHS body by virtue of subsection (7G) as if it were a prescribed NHS body for the purposes of those regulations.\n(7J) But a combined county authority to which regulations under this section apply by virtue of subsection (7I) may enter into prescribed arrangements in relation to the exercise only of functions within subsection (1)(a) that are exercisable by the authority under voluntary arrangements.\n(7K) Regulations under this section may provide for the regulations to apply in relation to a combined county authority subject to any prescribed limitations or conditions.\n(7L) Nothing in subsection (7J) prevents a combined county authority from being a party to arrangements made by virtue of this section in relation to any prescribed functions of an NHS body that are exercisable by the authority as a result of regulations under section 19 of the Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023 (public authority functions exercisable by combined county authorities).”",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 168 in force at 26.12.2023, see s. 255(2)(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/55/schedule/4/paragraph/168",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:50:40.116941+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."
}