{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-act-2006/section-73",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-act-2006/section-73.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2006/41",
  "legislation_title": "National Health Service Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-act-2006",
  "path": "section/73",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "73",
  "heading": "Directions and regulations under this Part",
  "text": "(1) This section applies to directions and regulations under any of—\n(a) section 7,\n(aa) section 7B,\n(ab) section 7C,\n(b) section 8,\n(ba) section 13YB,\n(bb) section 27B,\n(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(e) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(f) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(g) section 29.\n(2) Except in prescribed cases, the directions and regulations must not preclude a person or body by whom the function is exercisable apart from the directions or regulations from exercising the function.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 73(1)(aa) inserted (1.7.2022) by Health and Care Act 2022 (c. 31), ss. 43(3), 186(6); S.I. 2022/734, reg. 2(a), Sch. (with regs. 13, 29, 30)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 73(1)(ab) inserted (1.7.2022) by Health and Care Act 2022 (c. 31), ss. 44(3), 186(6); S.I. 2022/734, reg. 2(a), Sch. (with regs. 13, 29, 30)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 73(1)(ba) inserted (1.4.2023) by Health and Care Act 2022 (c. 31), ss. 13(3), 186(6); S.I. 2023/371, reg. 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 73(1)(bb) inserted (1.7.2022) by Health and Care Act 2022 (c. 31), ss. 55(3), 186(6); S.I. 2022/734, reg. 2(a), Sch. (with regs. 13, 29, 30)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "S. 73(1)(c)-(f) omitted (1.4.2013) by virtue of Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c. 7), s. 306(4), Sch. 4 para. 19; S.I. 2013/160, art. 2(2) (with arts. 7-9)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/41/section/73",
    "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."
}