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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-scotland-act-1978/schedule-9/paragraph-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-scotland-act-1978/schedule-9/paragraph-3.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/9/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The fact that a person’s medical practice was previously carried on by another person who at any time provided or performed services as specified in section 35(1) does not, by itself, make it unlawful under section 35(1) for the goodwill of his practice to be sold.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 3 and heading inserted (1.4.1998) by 1997 c. 46, s. 41(10), Sch. 2 Pt. I para. 59(10); S.I. 1998/631, art. 2(1)(b), Sch. 2 (with arts. 3, 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 9 para 3 and crossheading inserted (1.4.1998) by 1997 c. 46, s. 41(10), Sch. 2 Pt. I para. 59(10); S.I. 1998/631, art. 2(1)(b), Sch. 2 (with arts. 3, 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 9 para. 3 substituted (1.2.2006) by The Primary Medical Services (Scotland) Act 2004 (Modification of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978) Order 2006 (S.S.I. 2006/30), {art. 2(6)(b)}"
    }
  ],
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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."
}