{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-and-community-care-act-1990/section-38",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-and-community-care-act-1990/section-38.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1990/19",
  "legislation_title": "National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-and-community-care-act-1990",
  "path": "section/38",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "38",
  "heading": "Scottish Medical Practices Committee.",
  "text": "(1) In section 3 of the 1978 Act (the Scottish Medical Practices Committee), after subsection (1) there shall be inserted the following subsection—\n“(1A) After consulting the Medical Practices Committee, the Secretary of State may give the Committee directions with respect to the exercise of its functions; and it shall be the duty of the Committee to comply with any such directions.”\n(2) In Schedule 2 to the 1978 Act (constitution etc of Scottish Medical Practices Committee), after paragraph 2 there shall be inserted—\n“\n2A The Secretary of State may by order make such modifications as he considers appropriate of paragraphs 1 and 2.”",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 38 wholly in force at 1.4.1991 see s. 67(2) and S.I. 1991/607, art.2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1990/19/section/38",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:43:11.905057+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."
}