{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-scotland-act-1978/section-12IV",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-scotland-act-1978/section-12IV.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/12IV",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "12IV",
  "heading": "HIS: ministerial guidance on staffing functions",
  "text": "(1) The following persons must have regard to any guidance issued by the Scottish Ministers about the operation of sections 12IP to 12IU—\n(a) HIS,\n(b) every Health Board,\n(c) every relevant Special Health Board, and\n(d) the Agency.\n(2) Before issuing such guidance, the Scottish Ministers must consult the persons listed in paragraphs (b) to (j) of section 12IR(3) (reading the references to HIS as if they were references to the Scottish Ministers).\n(3) The Scottish Ministers must publish any guidance issued under this section.",
  "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/12IV",
    "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."
}