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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-act-2006/schedule-10/paragraph-5",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2006/41",
  "legislation_title": "National Health Service Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-act-2006",
  "path": "schedule/10/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Any report under paragraph 3 must be sent by the auditor to the council of governors and board of directors of the trust and to NHS England—\n(a) at once if it is an immediate report,\n(b) otherwise not later than 14 days after conclusion of the audit.\n(2) The directors must take the report into consideration as soon as practicable after receiving it.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 10 para. 5(1) substituted (1.10.2012) by Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c. 7), ss. 151(9)(e), 306(4); S.I. 2012/1831, art. 2(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 10 para. 5 substituted (1.7.2022) by Health and Care Act 2022 (c. 31), s. 186(6), Sch. 5 para. 32(a); S.I. 2022/734, reg. 2(a), Sch. (with regs. 13, 29, 30)"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:13:55.183741+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."
}