{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-scotland-act-1978/section-10P",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-scotland-act-1978/section-10P.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": "section/10P",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "10P",
  "heading": "Registration of independent health care services",
  "text": "(1) A person who seeks to provide a independent health care service must apply to HIS for registration of the service.\n(2) An application must—\n(a) give such information as may be prescribed about prescribed matters;\n(b) identify an individual (who may be the applicant) who is to manage the service;\n(c) give any other information which HIS may reasonably require the applicant to give;\n(d) without prejudice to subsection (1)(b) of section 10Z5, be accompanied by the fee imposed under subsection (2)(a) of that section;\n(e) be accompanied by any annual continuation fee, or any instalment of an annual continuation fee, that remains due in respect of a previous registration of that service that has been cancelled.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 10A-10Z19 and cross-headings inserted (1.8.2010 for the insertion of s. 10A for specified purposes, 1.10.2010 for specified purposes, 1.4.2011 for specified purposes, 1.4.2016 for specified purposes with the exception of the insertion of s. 10Z9(1)(a), 1.4.2017 for specified purposes, 19.6.2024 for specified purposes with the exception of the insertion of s. 10Z9(1)(a), 19.6.2025 for specified purposes) by Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 (asp 8), ss. 108, 134(7); S.S.I. 2010/221, art. 3(2)(3), sch.; S.S.I. 2010/321, art. 3, sch.; S.S.I. 2011/122, art. 2, sch.; S.S.I. 2016/22, art. 2(1)(2), sch. 1, sch. 2; S.S.I. 2024/131, art. 2, sch. 1, sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 10P(2)(e) inserted (19.6.2024) by The National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 (Independent Health Care) Modification Order 2024 (S.S.I. 2024/172), arts. 1, 4"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1978/29/section/10P",
    "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."
}