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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-act-2006/section-163",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-act-2006/section-163.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2006/41",
  "legislation_title": "National Health Service Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-act-2006",
  "path": "section/163",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "163",
  "heading": "Corresponding provisions in Scotland and Northern Ireland",
  "text": "(1) This section applies where it appears to the Secretary of State that there is provision in Scotland or Northern Ireland under which a person may be dealt with in any way which corresponds (whether or not exactly) with a way in which a person may be dealt with under this Chapter.\n(2) A decision in Scotland or Northern Ireland to deal with such a person in such a way is referred to in this section as a “corresponding decision”.\n(3) If this section applies, the Secretary of State may make regulations providing for the effect to be given in England to a corresponding decision.\n(4) That effect need not be the same as the effect of the decision in the place where it was made.\n(5) The regulations may not provide for a corresponding decision to be reviewed or revoked in England.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/41/section/163",
    "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."
}