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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-act-2006/section-252",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-act-2006/section-252.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2006/41",
  "legislation_title": "National Health Service Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-act-2006",
  "path": "section/252",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "252",
  "heading": "Consultation with the Care Quality Commission",
  "text": "(1) Before laying before Parliament a draft of any statutory instrument containing regulations under section 251(1), or making any regulations pursuant to section 251(5)(b), the Secretary of State must seek and have regard to the views of the Care Quality Commission on the proposed regulations.\n(2) The Secretary of State must publish, in such manner as the Secretary of State considers appropriate, any views received from NHS England on the proposed regulations.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 252 substituted (1.1.2009) by Health and Social Care Act 2008 (c. 14), ss. 158, 170(3)(4); S.I. 2008/2497, art. 7(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 252(1) substituted (1.4.2013) by Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c. 7), ss. 280(5), 306(4); S.I. 2013/160, art. 2(2) (with arts. 7-9)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "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)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 252 title substituted (1.4.2013) by Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c. 7), ss. 280(5)(a), 306(4); S.I. 2013/160, art. 2(2) (with arts. 7-9)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 252 excluded (W.) (24.5.2018) by The Welsh Ministers (Transfer of Functions) Order 2018 (S.I. 2018/644), arts. 1(1), 43(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/41/section/252",
    "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."
}