{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-act-1977/schedule-11/paragraph-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-act-1977/schedule-11/paragraph-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1977/49",
  "legislation_title": "National Health Service Act 1977",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-act-1977",
  "path": "schedule/11/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) A person shall not, with intent to deceive—\n(a) use any document issued for the purposes of section 57 above and this Schedule or of any order made under that section;\n(b) have in his possession any document so closely resembling such a document as is described in paragraph (a) above as to be calculated to deceive;\n(c) produce, furnish, send or otherwise make use of for purposes connected with that section and this Schedule or any order or direction made or given under that section, any book, account, estimate, return, declaration or other document which is false in a material particular.\n(2) A person shall not, in furnishing any information for the purposes of section 57 and this Schedule or of any order made under that section, make a statement which he knows to be false in a material particular or recklessly make a statement which is false in a material particular.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Act repealed (except ss. 57, Sch. 11 and ss. 126, 128 so far as they relate to those provisions, which are repealed only for E.W., see s. 7(3) of the repealing Act; and except s. 41B(2)(6)(b) as amended by S.I. 2006/1056, which is repealed immediately after that amendment comes into force, see s. 8(4)-(6); and except ss. 19, 28J, 38, 39, 41, 41B(2)(6)(b), 42(2B)(2C), 42A, 42B, 43(2), 49F, 49H, 98, 128, Sch. 8 para. 2(2B), Sch. 8A, Sch. 9A para. 6, Sch. 12 paras. 2A(1)(b)(ba), 2B, Sch. 12B as amended by Health Act 2006 (c. 28) which are repealed immediately after those amendments come into force on 1.8.2008 and 9.5.2013, see s. 8(4)-(6); and except ss. 3, 15, 16CD, 16CE, 18A, 26, 28WA-28WF, 28X, 28Y, 38, 39, 43D, 44, 45A, 45C, 72, 103 as amended by Health Act 2006 (c. 28) and to the extent that they relate to primary ophthalmic services, which are repealed immediately after those amendments come into force on 1.8.2008, see s. 8(4)-(6)) (1.3.2007) by National Health Service (Consequential Provisions) Act 2006 (c. 43), ss. 6, 8(2), Sch. 4 (with saving for s. 126 in Sch. 2 para. 7 and general savings and transitional provisions in Sch. 2 Pt. 1 and transitory modifications relating to primary ophthalmic services in Sch. 3 para. 1); S.I. 2008/1972, art. 2; S.I. 2013/1112, art. 2Act: specified provisions amended and repealed and specified amendments and repeals by specified legislation commenced (1.3.2007 immediately before the National Health Service Act 2006 (c. 41) comes into force) by virtue of The National Health Service (Pre-consolidation Amendments) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/1407), arts. 1-3, Schs. 1, 2 (with art. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 11 ceases to have effect in relation to health service medicines (1.9.1999 for certain purposes and otherwise 1.11.1999) by 1999 c. 8, s. 38(5); S.I. 1999/2177, art. 2(3)(b)(4)(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1977/49/schedule/11/paragraph/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:24:07.293795+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."
}