{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-act-2006/section-223L",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-act-2006/section-223L.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2006/41",
  "legislation_title": "National Health Service Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-act-2006",
  "path": "section/223L",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "223L",
  "heading": "Joint financial objectives for integrated care boards etc",
  "text": "(1) NHS England may set joint financial objectives for integrated care boards and their partner NHS trusts and NHS foundation trusts.\n(2) An integrated care board and its partner NHS trusts and NHS foundation trusts must seek to achieve any financial objectives set under this section.\n(3) Financial objectives under this section may apply to—\n(a) integrated care boards and their partner NHS trusts and NHS foundation trusts generally,\n(b) a particular integrated care board and its partner NHS trusts and NHS foundation trusts, or\n(c) an integrated care board of a particular description and its partner NHS trusts and NHS foundation trusts.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 223L-223O and cross-headings inserted (1.7.2022) by Health and Care Act 2022 (c. 31), ss. 29(5), 186(6); S.I. 2022/734, reg. 2(a), Sch. (with regs. 13, 29, 34)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/41/section/223L",
    "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."
}