{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-scotland-act-1978/section-110",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-scotland-act-1978/section-110.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/110",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "110",
  "heading": "Citation, extent and commencement.",
  "text": "(1) This Act may be cited as the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978.\n(2) Subject to subsection (3)subsections (2A) and (3), this Act extends only to Scotland.\n(2A) Section 87B(3) extends also to England and Wales.\n(3) Paragraph 3 of Schedule 10 extends to other parts of the United Kingdom.\n(4) This Act shall come into force on 1st January 1979.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words “subsections (2A) and (3)\" substituted (1.4.1991) for “subsection (3)\" by National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19, SIF 113:2), s. 66(1), Sch. 9 para. 19(23)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 110(2A) inserted (1.4.1991) by National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19, SIF 113:2), s. 66(1), Sch. 9 para. 19(23)(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1978/29/section/110",
    "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."
}