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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-reform-scotland-act-2004/section-4",
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  "legislation": "asp/2004/7",
  "legislation_title": "National Health Service Reform (Scotland) Act 2004",
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  "path": "section/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Equal opportunities",
  "text": "After section 2C of the 1978 Act insert—\n“Equal opportunities\n2D (1) Health Boards, Special Health Boards and the Agency must discharge their functions in a manner that encourages equal opportunities and in particular the observance of the equal opportunity requirements.\n(2) In this section “equal opportunities” and “equal opportunity requirements” have the same meaning as in Section L2 (equal opportunities) of Part II of Schedule 5 to the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46).”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 4 in force at 30.9.2004 by S.S.I. 2004/361, art. 2(b)(i)"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2004/7/section/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:16:35.965947+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."
}