{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-scotland-act-1972/section-34",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1972/58",
  "legislation_title": "National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1972",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-scotland-act-1972",
  "path": "section/34",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "34",
  "heading": "Transfer of other staff.",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State shall have power by order to provide for the transfer of persons to whom this section applies to the employment of such Health Board as may be specified in the order or of the Agency if so specified.\n(2) The section applies to any person who, immediately before the appointed day, was employed by—\n(a) a Regional Hospital Board;\n(b) a Board of Management;\n(c) an Executive Council;\n(d) a local authority or education authority wholly or mainly for the purposes of their health or school health functions within the meaning of section 27 of this Act, or wholly or mainly for the purposes of their public health functions within the meaning of section 32 of this Act;\n(e) a port local authority; or\n(f) a body established by any board, council or authority as aforesaid acting jointly with any other such board, council or authority;\n(g) an education authority wholly or mainly as a speech therapist for the purposes of providing special education in pursuance of sections 1 and 3A of the Education (Scotland) Act 1962;\nand was not transferred by virtue of the foregoing provisions of this Part of this Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 34(2)(e) repealed (S.) (1.10.2009) by Public Health etc. (Scotland) Act 2008 (Commencement No. 2, Savings and Consequential Provisions) Order 2009 (S.S.I. 2009/319), art. 2, Sch. 3 Pt. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 34(2)(g) inserted by National Health Service Reorganisation Act 1973 (c. 32), Sch. 4 para. 140"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1962 c. 47."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1972/58/section/34",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:48:36.670416+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."
}