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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-act-2006/section-66",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-act-2006/section-66.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2006/41",
  "legislation_title": "National Health Service Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-act-2006",
  "path": "section/66",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "66",
  "heading": "Intervention orders",
  "text": "(1) This section applies to NHS bodies other than NHS foundation trusts.\n(2) If the Secretary of State—\n(a) considers that a body to which this section applies is not performing one or more of its functions adequately or at all, or that there are significant failings in the way the body is being run, and\n(b) is satisfied that it is appropriate for him to intervene under this section,\nhe may make an order under this section in respect of the body (an “intervention order”).\n(3) An intervention order may make any provision authorised by section 67 (including any combination of such provisions).",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 66 modified (temp.) (11.7.2012) by The Health and Social Care Act 2012 (Commencement No.2 and Transitional, Savings and Transitory Provisions) Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/1831), art. 13(3)-(5)"
    }
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    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2012/7",
      "affecting_title": "Health and Social Care Act 2012"
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      "affecting_title": "Health and Social Care Act 2012"
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/41/section/66",
    "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."
}