{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-act-2006/section-147B",
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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": "section/147B",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "147B",
  "heading": "Further provision about regulations under section 147A",
  "text": "(1) Regulations under section 147A may require a person (A) included in—\n(a) a pharmaceutical list, or\n(b) a list under section 132(3) (provision of drugs, medicines or listed appliances),\nnot to employ or engage a person (B) to assist A in the provision of the service to which the list relates unless B is included in a list mentioned in subsection (2).\n(2) The lists are—\n(a) a list referred to in subsection (1),\n(b) a list under section 147A,\n(c) a list under section 91, 106 or 123,\n(d) a list corresponding to a list under section 91 prepared by NHS England by virtue of regulations made under section 145,\n(e) a list corresponding to a list mentioned in any of paragraphs (a) to (d) prepared by a Local Health Board under or by virtue of the National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006,\nor, in any of the cases in paragraphs (a) to (e), such a list of a prescribed description.\n(3) If regulations do so require, they may, in particular, require that both A and B be included in lists prepared by NHS England.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 7 Ch. 4A inserted (27.3.2012 for specified purposes, 1.10.2026 in so far as not already in force) by Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c. 7), ss. 208(2), 306(1)(d)(4); S.I. 2026/852, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "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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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/41/section/147B",
    "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."
}