{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-scotland-act-1978/section-2CB",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-scotland-act-1978/section-2CB.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/2CB",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2CB",
  "heading": "Functions of Health Boards outside Scotland",
  "text": "(1) Where it is the function of a Health Board to provide or to secure the provision of a service, the Health Board may secure the provision of that service outside Scotland.\n(2) For the purposes of securing the provision of any service referred to in subsection (1), a Health Board may make such arrangements for the provision of the service as they think fit (and may in particular make contractual arrangements with any person).\n(3) Anything done by a Health Board in pursuance of subsection (1) or (2) is to be regarded as done in exercise of functions of the Scottish Ministers conferred on the Health Board by an order under section 2(1)(a).",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 2CA inserted (7.7.2010) by The National Health Service (Reimbursement of the Cost of EEA Treatment) (Scotland) Regulations 2010 (S.S.I. 2010/283), reg. 3(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 2CB: s. 2CA renumbered as s. 2CB (25.10.2013) by The National Health Service (Cross-Border Health Care) (Scotland) Regulations 2013 (S.S.I. 2013/292), regs. 1(1), 8(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "asp/2005/13",
      "affecting_title": "Smoking, Health and Social Care (Scotland) Act 2005"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1978/29/section/2CB",
    "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."
}