{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-act-2006/schedule-12A/paragraph-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-act-2006/schedule-12A/paragraph-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2006/41",
  "legislation_title": "National Health Service Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-act-2006",
  "path": "schedule/12A/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "NHS England may, with the consent of the Secretary of State—\n(a) direct a Special Health Authority to exercise any functions of NHS England under this Schedule, or\n(b) arrange for any other person to exercise any of those functions.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 12A inserted (1.4.2013) by Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c. 7), ss. 51(2), 306(4), Sch. 3; S.I. 2013/160, art. 2(2) (with arts. 7-9)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Act substituted (1.7.2022) by Health and Care Act 2022 (c. 31), s. 186(6), Sch. 1 para. 1(1)(2); S.I. 2022/734, reg. 2(a), Sch. (with regs. 13, 29, 30)"
    }
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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."
}