{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-scotland-act-1978/section-12IU",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-scotland-act-1978/section-12IU.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/12IU",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "12IU",
  "heading": "HIS: power to require information",
  "text": "(1) HIS may, in pursuance of its functions under sections 12IP to 12IS, serve a notice on a Health Board, relevant Special Health Board or the Agency requiring the Board or the Agency (as the case may be)—\n(a) to provide HIS with information about any matter specified in the notice, and\n(b) to provide that information by a date specified in the notice.\n(2) A notice under subsection (1) must explain why, and in pursuance of which function, the information is required.\n(3) A Health Board, relevant Special Health Board or the Agency (as the case may be) must comply with any such notice served on it.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 12IP-12IW and cross-heading inserted (15.5.2023 for specified purposes, 1.4.2024 in so far as not already in force) by Health and Care (Staffing) (Scotland) Act 2019 (asp 6), ss. 6(2), 15(2); S.S.I. 2023/131, reg. 2, sch.; S.S.I. 2024/20, reg. 2(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1978/29/section/12IU",
    "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."
}