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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-scotland-act-1978/schedule-7A/paragraph-24",
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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/7A/paragraph/24",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "24",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Where land consisting of a church or other building used or formerly used for religious worship, or the site thereof, or a burial ground, within the meaning of section 197 of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997 (provisions as to churches and burial grounds), is held by an NHS trust for any of its purposes, that section applies to the land as if—\n(a) the land had been acquired by the trust as mentioned in subsection (1) of that section; and\n(b) the trust were a statutory undertaker, within the meaing of that Act.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Schs. 7A, 7B inserted by National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19, SIF 113:2), s. 32, Sch. 6"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 7A para. 24 substituted (27.5.1997) by virtue of 1997 c. 11, ss. 4, 6(2), Sch. 2 para. 46(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "asp/2002/5",
      "affecting_title": "Community Care and Health (Scotland) Act 2002"
    },
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "asp/2004/7",
      "affecting_title": "National Health Service Reform (Scotland) Act 2004"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1978/29/schedule/7A/paragraph/24",
    "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."
}