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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-scotland-act-1978/schedule-7A/paragraph-7",
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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/7",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) For each accounting year an NHS trust shall prepare and send to the Secretary of State an annual report in such form as may be determined by the Secretary of State.\n(2) At such time or times as may be prescribed, an NHS trust shall hold a public meeting at which its audited accounts, its annual report, and such other documents as may be prescribed shall be presented.\n(3) In such circumstances and at such time or times as may be prescribed, an NHS trust shall hold a public meeting at which such documents as may be prescribed shall be presented.",
  "extent": "S",
  "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": "P",
      "label": "P1",
      "text": "Sch. 7A para. 7(2): S. 12A(5) (with ss. 105(7), 108(1) and Sch. 7A para. 7(2)) power exercised by S.I. 1991/535"
    }
  ],
  "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      "type": "repealed",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"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1978/29/schedule/7A/paragraph/7",
    "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."
}