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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-act-2006/schedule-10/paragraph-6",
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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/6",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "If the auditor of an NHS foundation trust has reason to believe that the trust or a director or officer of the trust—\n(a) is about to make, or has made, a decision which involves or would involve the incurring of expenditure which is unlawful, or\n(b) is about to take, or has taken, a course of action which, if pursued to its conclusion, would be unlawful and likely to cause a loss or deficiency,\nhe must refer the matter at once to NHS England.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 10 para. 6 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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  },
  "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."
}