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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-and-public-involvement-in-health-act-2007/section-231",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-and-public-involvement-in-health-act-2007/section-231.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2007/28",
  "legislation_title": "Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-and-public-involvement-in-health-act-2007",
  "path": "section/231",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "231",
  "heading": "Abolition of Patients' Forums",
  "text": "(1) The following provisions of the National Health Service Act 2006 are omitted—\nsection 237(1) and (2) (establishment of Patients' Forums and appointment of their members);\nsection 240 (Patients' Forums: annual reports); and\nsection 241(1) and (2) (power to make further provision about Patients' Forums).\n(2) The property, rights and liabilities of each Patients' Forum are by virtue of this subsection transferred to the Secretary of State for Health (including any property, rights and liabilities that would not otherwise be capable of being transferred).\n(3) Any legal proceedings relating to anything transferred under subsection (2) may be continued by or in relation to the Secretary of State for Health.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 231 in force at 1.4.2008 by S.I. 2008/461, art. 2(3), Sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2007/28/section/231",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:12:26.064223+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."
}