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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-capacity-act-2005-independent-mental-capacity-advocates-general-regulations-2006/regulation-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2006/1832",
  "legislation_title": "The Mental Capacity Act 2005 (Independent Mental Capacity Advocates) (General) Regulations 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-capacity-act-2005-independent-mental-capacity-advocates-general-regulations-2006",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Meaning of NHS Body",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of sections 37 and 38 of the Act, “NHS body” means a body in England which is—\n(a) a Strategic Health Authority;\n(b) an NHS foundation trust;\n(c) a Primary Care Trust;\n(d) an NHS Trust; or\n(e) a Care Trust.\n(2) In this regulation—\n“Care Trust” means a body designated as a Care Trust under section 45 of the Health and Social Care Act 2001;\n“NHS foundation trust” has the meaning given in section 1 of the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003;\n“NHS trust” means a body established under section 5 of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990;\n“Primary Care Trust” means a body established under section 16A of the National Health Service Act 1977; and\n“Strategic Health Authority” means a Strategic Health Authority established under section 8 of the National Health Service Act 1977.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2001 c. 15."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2003 c. 43."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1990 c. 19. Section 5 is amended by paragraph 69(1)(b) and (d) of Schedule 1 to the Health Authorities Act 1995 (c. 17), paragraph 65(2) of Schedule 2 to the National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997 (c. 46) and sections 13(1) and (10) and 14 of the Health Act 1999 (c. 8)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "1977 c. 49. Section 16A is inserted by section 2(1) of the Heath Act 1999."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "Section 8 of the National Health Service Act 1977 is substituted by section 1(2) of the National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002 (c. 17)."
    }
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      "type": "words omitted",
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      "affecting_title": "The National Treatment Agency (Abolition) and the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (Consequential, Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order 2013"
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      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2022/634",
      "affecting_title": "The Health and Care Act 2022 (Consequential and Related Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2022"
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      "affecting_title": "The Health and Care Act 2022 (Consequential and Related Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2022"
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/1832/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:26:09.473985+00:00"
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  "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."
}