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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-existing-liabilities-scheme-regulations-1996/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-existing-liabilities-scheme-regulations-1996/regulation-8.json",
  "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/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Availability of directions and guidance",
  "text": "The Secretary of State shall make available to eligible bodies, in such form and at such times as he may consider appropriate—\n(a) any directions he may give, to any body directed under section 21(4)(b) of the Act to carry out functions in connection with the administration of the Scheme, with respect to the discharge by that body of those functions; and\n(b) any guidance he may give to that body as to the manner in which the Scheme is to be administered.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See section 17 of the National Health Service Act 1977 (c. 49), as substituted by paragraph 2 of Schedule 3 to the Health and Social Security Act 1984 (c. 48) and amended by sections 3(4) and 12(2) of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19); see also paragraph 8 of Schedule 1 to the Health Authorities Act 1995 (c. 17)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See S.I. 1995/2800."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/686/regulation/8",
    "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."
}