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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-clinical-negligence-scheme-amendment-regulations-1997/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/527",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Clinical Negligence Scheme) (Amendment) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-clinical-negligence-scheme-amendment-regulations-1997",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the National Health Service (Clinical Negligence Scheme) Regulations 1996 (“the principal Regulations”) which established a Scheme whereby NHS trusts and certain other bodies providing services under the National Health Service Act 1977 may make provision for meeting liabilities to third parties in connection with personal injury arising out of negligence in the carrying out of the bodies' functions.\nThe definition of “relevant function” in regulation 1(2) of the principal Regulations (interpretation) is amended to include, among the services to which the Scheme applies, services provided in exercise of a member’s powers of income generation (regulation 2), and a consequential change is made in regulation 3 (eligible bodies). Regulation 9 of the principal Regulations (payments under the Scheme) is amended to make provision in relation to payments under the Scheme in connection with legal and other costs, and where a member has agreed to be bound by the decision of an arbitrator in connection with a claim against the member in relation to a qualifying liability (regulation 4).",
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  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/527/note",
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  "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."
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