{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-primary-care-act-1997/section-8A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-primary-care-act-1997/section-8A.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1997/46",
  "legislation_title": "National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-primary-care-act-1997",
  "path": "section/8A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "8A",
  "heading": "Delegation of Health Authority functions relating to pilot schemes.",
  "text": "(1) A Strategic Health Authority may not, under section 17A of the 1977 Act, direct a Primary Care Trust to exercise any functions of the Strategic Health Authority arising under a pilot scheme if the Primary Care Trust is providing any services under the pilot scheme.\n(2) The Secretary of State may by order make provision for any rights and liabilities arising under pilot schemes under which personal medical services are provided to be transferred from Strategic Health Authorities to Primary Care Trusts and from Primary Care Trusts to Strategic Health Authorities.\n(3) Subsection (2) is without prejudice to any other power of the Secretary of State to transfer rights and liabilities under the 1977 Act.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. I ceases to have effect for specified purposes (S.) (1.4.2004) by virtue of Primary Medical Services (Scotland) Act 2004 (asp 1), ss. 3, 9(1); S.S.I. 2004/58, art. 2(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Pt. I repealed (E.W.) (1.4.2004 for specified purposes, 1.4.2006 in so far as not already in force) by Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 (c. 43), ss. 178, 199(1)(4), Sch. 14 Pt. 4 Note (with S.I. 2004/865, arts. 1(1), 58); S.I. 2004/288, arts. 4(3)(b), 6(2)(p) (with art. 8) (as amended by S.I. 2004/866 and S.I. 2005/2925); S.I. 2004/480, art. 5(2)(p) (with arts. 6, 7) (as amended by S.I. 2004/1019 and S.I. 2006/345), S.I. 2005/2925, arts. 6(2)(b), 11, S.I. 2006/345, art. 4(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S 8A(1) substituted (1.10.2002 for E. W.) by 2002 c. 17, ss. 4(3), 42(3), Sch. 3 Pt. 1 para. 4(a); S.I. 2002/2478, art. 3(1)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in S. 8A(2) substituted (1.10.2002 for E.W.) by 2002 c. 17, ss. 4(3), 42(3), Sch. 3 para. 4(b); S.I. 2002/2478, art. 3(1)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "S. 8A inserted (4.1.2000 for E.) by 1999 c. 8, ss. 6(1), 67(1); S.I. 1999/2342, art. 2(3)(a), Sch. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1997/46/section/8A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:24:53.963264+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."
}