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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-existing-liabilities-scheme-regulations-1996/regulation-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/686",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Existing Liabilities Scheme) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-existing-liabilities-scheme-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Liabilities to which the Scheme applies",
  "text": "The Scheme applies to any liability in tort owed by an eligible body to a third party in respect of or consequent upon personal injury or loss arising out of or in connection with any breach before 1st April 1995 of a duty of care owed by that body, or a body referred to in regulation 3(b)(ii), to any person in connection with the diagnosis of any illness, or the care or treatment of any patient, in consequence of any act or omission to act on the part of a person employed or engaged by such a body in connection with any relevant function of that body.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/686/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:48:48.034023+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."
}