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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-scotland-act-1978/schedule-11/paragraph-3",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1978/29",
  "legislation_title": "National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-scotland-act-1978",
  "path": "schedule/11/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1)\n(2) Regulations may vary the amount or the maximum amount of any charge authorised by section 71(1), and this power includes power to direct that the charge shall not be payable.\n(3) Where any services in respect of which a charge is payable under section 70 are provided in pursuance of the contract or arrangement, the charges payable under that section and section 71(1) in respect of all services provided in pursuance of the contract or arrangement shall not exceed a prescribed sum in the aggregate.\n(4) No charge shall be made under section 71(1) in respect of services provided for any person who, on the date of the contract or arrangement for the services—\n(a) was under 18 years of age or was under 19 years of age and receiving qualifying full-time education, or\n(c) was an expectant mother or had borne a child within the previous 12 months,\n(5) Regulations made with respect to any exemptions under sub-paragraph (4)\nmay provide that it shall be a condition of the exemption that such declaration is made in such form and manner, or such certificate or other evidence is supplied in such form and manner, as may be prescribed.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 11 para. 3(1) repealed by Health and Medicines Act 1988 (c. 49, SIF 113:2), s. 25(2), Sch. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words substituted by Health Services Act 1980 (c. 53), s. 26(2), Sch. 5 Pt. II para. 7(2)."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words repealed by Health Services Act 1980 (c. 53), s. 26(2), Sch. 5 Pt. II para. 7(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words substituted by Health Services Act 1980 (c. 53), s. 26(2), Sch. 5 Pt. II para. 7(3)"
    }
  ],
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      "affecting_title": "Smoking, Health and Social Care (Scotland) Act 2005"
    },
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    },
    {
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      "affecting_title": "Smoking, Health and Social Care (Scotland) Act 2005"
    },
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      "affecting": "asp/2005/13",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1978/29/schedule/11/paragraph/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-31T10:30:48.038600+00:00"
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  "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."
}