{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-scotland-act-1978/schedule-5/paragraph-7C",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-scotland-act-1978/schedule-5/paragraph-7C.json",
  "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/5/paragraph/7C",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "7C",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Directions may be given by the Secretary of State—\n(a) to the Agency to place services of any of its officers or servants at the disposal of a Health Board or state hospital; and\n(b) to a Health Board or state hospital to employ as an officer or servant any person who is or was employed by the Agency and is specified in the direction,\nand it shall be the duty of the Agency, a Health Board or a state hospital to comply with any such directions given to it.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 paras. 1, 2, 4–7, 9–15, Sch. 5 paras. 7B, 7C applied by S.I. 1990/2639, art. 5(1)(2), Sch. Pt. I"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Sch. 5 para. 7C applied (1.4.1993) by S.I. 1993/577, art. 5(1), Sch. Pt. I (with art. 6) Sch. 5 para. 7C applied (1.4.1995) by S.I. 1995/574, art. 5(1)(2), Sch. Pt.I (with art. 6) Sch. 5 para. 7C applied (1.4.1999) by S.I. 1999/686, art. 5(1)(2), Sch. Pt. I Sch. 5 para. 7C applied (1.4.1999) by S.I. 1999/726, art. 5(1)(2), Sch. Pt. I Sch. 5 para. 7C applied (1.4.2000) by S.S.I. 2000/47, art. 5(1)(2), Sch. Pt. I Sch. 5 para. 7C applied (6.4.2001) by S.S.I. 2001/137, art. 5(1), Sch. Pt. I Sch. 5 para. 7C applied (with modifications) (31.3.2002) by S.S.I. 2002/103, art. 6, Sch. Pt. I (with art. (4)) Sch. 5 para. 7C applied (27.6.2002) by S.S.I. 2002/503, art. 5(1), Sch. Pt. I (with art. 4(4))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Sch. 5 para. 7C applied (7.12.2019) by The Public Health Scotland Order 2019 (S.S.I. 2019/336), art. 1(2), sch. 1 Pt. 1 (with art. 4(4)(5))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "asp/2004/7",
      "affecting_title": "National Health Service Reform (Scotland) Act 2004"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1978/29/schedule/5/paragraph/7C",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-31T10:30:48.038600+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."
}