{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-licence-exemptions-etc-regulations-2013/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2013/2677",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Licence Exemptions, etc. ) Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-licence-exemptions-etc-regulations-2013",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "National Health Service, England\nMade 17th October 2013\nComing into force 1st April 2014\nThe Secretary of State for Health makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 81(2), 83, 150(1) and 304(9) and (10) of the Health and Social Care Act 2012.\nIn accordance with section 83(4) to (7) of that Act, the Secretary of State has given notice to Monitor, NHS England, and the Care Quality Commission and its Healthwatch England committee and published that notice.\nA draft of these Regulations was laid before Parliament in accordance with section 304(5)(b) of the Health and Social Care Act 2012, and was approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Instrument substituted (6.11.2023) by The Health and Care Act 2022 (Further Consequential Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1071), reg. 1(1), Sch. para. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2012 c. 7. See section 150(1) of the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (“the 2012 Act”) for the meaning of “prescribed”."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/2677/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:37:23.024179+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."
}