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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-act-2006/section-221",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-act-2006/section-221.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2006/41",
  "legislation_title": "National Health Service Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-act-2006",
  "path": "section/221",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "221",
  "heading": "Voluntary hospitals",
  "text": "(1) Subsection (2) applies where—\n(a) any hospital provided by the Secretary of State in accordance with this Act was a voluntary hospital transferred by virtue of the National Health Service Act 1946, and\n(b) the character and associations of that hospital before its transfer were such as to link it with a particular religious denomination.\n(2) Regard must be had in the general administration of the hospital to the preservation of that character and those associations.",
  "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/221",
    "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."
}